CEO's head in the Cloud
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- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:12:23 -0600
My CEO just came back from a technology conference where his head became
filled with lots of ideas including the idea that we should abandon our
hosted datacenters and push everything into the Cloud, specifically
Amazon's. A cursory review of the offerings for this show that the
databases are hosted on Amazon virtual machines that aren't officially
supported by Oracle and thus require a premium support contract from Amazon.
Aside from my personal feelings on the matter (that I'd much rather have a
tangible set of servers that are under direct control), what are your
pros/cons for pushing or not Production level OLTP databases into the cloud.
I notice right now that they currently only offer 11g1 on 64-bit an not 10g
64-bit or 11g2 64-bit so it would appear they arent covering all of their
bases. Presently we're RAC on 10.2.0.4 64 bit and use dataguard to a
different datacenter for geographic redundancy. I note also that Amazon
doesnt support RAC instances at present.
His driving push is that somehow Amazon's cloud will mean better performance
throughout the world as somehow the network throughput will be magically
enhanced so someone in Iraq will get the same speed hitting the application
as someone in California. I don't agree with that either but I dont have
empirical proof. Our databases presently are highly available, highly
optimized, and highly redundant. But, they aren't buzz word stamped
"Cloud." Sigh.
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