Book outlines strategies for switching to Oracle in the cloud
23.05.12
In his recent book, Migrating to the Cloud: Oracle Client/Server Modernization , co-author Tom Laszewski makes the case for moving your legacy Oracle infrastructure to the cloud. Laszewski, director of the Oracle Platform Migrations Group, talked in this Q&A about how some Oracle pros are running in the cloud without knowing it, why a server refresh is the perfect opportunity for migrating to Oracle in the cloud, and some specific challenges for large database migrations.
A survey of our readers last year found that about two-thirds had no plans to deploy Oracle in the cloud. Why do you think that is, and how can it change?
Tom Laszewski : Cloud means many things to IT professionals and there are many IT professionals that equate hypervisor-based virtualization with cloud computing. IT professionals may consider Software as a Service (SaaS) or Database as a Service (DaaS) in a public cloud environment such as Salesforce.com or Amazon DaaS as what it means for deploy workloads to the cloud. What they don't consider is that in many cases these SaaS or DaaS deployments are running on an Oracle Database or Oracle Fusion Middleware. If a customer is running Salesforce.com, they are running Oracle workloads in the cloud today and do not even realize it. DaaS and SaaS are the most visible aspects of cloud workloads, and Oracle currently does not offer SaaS or DaaS in a public cloud deployment. Therefore, Oracle is the backbone of the cloud but currently not the 'face' of the cloud.
Source: SearchOracle.com