Tag: cloud

High-performance computing (HPC) was once limited to organizations that could afford to buy and maintain systems costing tens of millions of dollars. The cloud has changed all that, creating a democracy in which teraflops are accessible to people well outside…

Cloud computing has been accessible to enterprise for a little over a decade, and that milestone is significant. It’s fitting to think of the cloud as a technology that’s approaching its adolescence. Though it’s awkward and a challenge to understand…

Welcome back to the Cloudscape Podcast! In this month’s edition, we are joined by Greg Baker who will discuss the latest from Amazon and Kartick Sekar who will discuss the latest from Google. Warner Chaves will have his own Microsoft…

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL. Cloud: Cloud Directory is a neglected serverless data store that deserves much more attention. Many of our large enterprise customers have this worry hanging over their heads … what are they…

This is the fourth in a series of four posts on data integration and its importance for organizations. In this fourth and final post, we look at how to finally solve the data silo problem. Throughout the first three parts…

Hybrid cloud solutions are growing in popularity and for good reason. They have the potential to bring significant cost savings, agility, flexibility and scalability to the modern enterprise. But the key word here is “potential” because missteps in planning and…

It has been almost a year since the last Open World where Oracle CTO and founder Larry Ellison proclaimed the new upcoming fully autonomous cloud database service. It created a lot of attention and almost everybody in the Oracle community…

The options in hybrid cloud environments are infinite. No two are the same. The decision to embrace hybrid cloud computing will trigger a number of other decisions that may be unique to your organization, and not all of them are…

Not so long ago, the debate about the virtues of cloud versus data center was pretty straightforward: Did your business want to maximize scalability, flexibility and cost efficiency in computing? While cloud has continued its relentless march to dominance, the…

A few years ago I wrote an article on getting started with the Oracle Database Backup Service which can be found here. It’s no surprise that in the last few years things have changed significantly.  Trying to use this service…