Cloud Computing: Reign Of Access

A detailed description of the further growth of cloud has been deduced by Oracle CEO, Larry Wilson on 2012, who once re-launched John McCarthy’s 1961 MIT theory on 2008 and later called the same as gibberish, first introduced cloud to the entire world as platform based product. There are two versions of Oracle's new IaaS cloud. One is a "public cloud" similar to the kind of clouds offered by Amazon, Rackspace, HP, and others, where the hardware is located in Oracle's data centres. It includes compute services and storage services, Ellison said. The second is the so-called Oracle Private cloud, where a replica of Oracle's public cloud is put in the customer's own data centre. Oracle would still own the hardware and be responsible for running it, securing it and updating it. The third announcement was that Oracle invented a brand new kind of database, designed specifically for the cloud. It's dubbed Oracle 12c (the c stands for cloud) and it let's multiple companies share the same database. Or a company with many Oracle databases can use 12c to easily consolidate all them onto one set of server/storage hardware. The Oracle 12c database will be available in 2013. The fourth announcement was for a new hardware product that is a direct competitor to rival SAP's HANA database. Ellison introduced Exadata x3 and says that it will be bigger and faster than HANA, as well as rival server products from IBM and HP but that it will cost far less. Exadata x3 prices start at $200,000.