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Oracle + Sun Cloud and Virtualization Strategies

January 28, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

The tech industry has been abuzz the past week now that the Oracle acquisition of Sun has cleared the last hurdle from the European Union and is officially complete.

Oracle and Sun executives have begun addressing a number of questions about how Oracle will integrate Suns various hardware, system and software stacks into the Oracle ecosystem.

Two areas of integration that hold quite a bit of interest to this blog’s readers are Oracle + Sun’s Cloud and Virtualization Strategies. In the following prerecorded videos Richard Sarwal SVP of Product Development and Edward Screven; Chief Corporate Architect, give insight into Oracle’s future strategy.

Category: Cloud Computing, Europe, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization

OnDemand Speed Links 21 December 2009

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December 21, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

E-Books in the Cloud
Will the use of the cloud for storage of E-Books lead to even greater adoption of cloud storage in the coming years?

Enterprise 2.0 year in Review
Dion Hincliffe posts an insightful review of Enterprise 2.0 in 2009.

Practical SOA Applications
Joe McKendrick has compiled 17 examples of SOA being put to real world use with fairly good results.

Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 Assessment Tool
Oracle has created a useful (if not somewhat irritating at times) Enterprise 2.0 assessment tool.

Category: Amazon, Cloud Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Oracle, PAAS, SaaS, Speedlinks

Sun Offers Solaris In The Cloud

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June 19, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

Vince Vasquez recently detailed Sun’s Solaris On Demand program. (This video is also posted over on Cloudbook)

Designed to help Sun ISV’s and other third parties with developing SaaS applications, a number of Sun partners including AT&T and Endeavors have launched SaaS solution on Solaris since the programs inception.

With the recent development and interest in Ubuntu, Hp Unix and AIX cloud computing platforms, Suns Solaris offering rounds out the major Unix and Linux distributions.