Five Ideas: Cloud Computing

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On January 25, Oracle hosted an online forum helping executives Gain Total Control of Enterprise Clouds. Customers had the chance to hear from executives and product experts about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle, challenges associated with each phase and the Oracle cloud management solution them keep total control of their cloud services every step of the way. You can now watch the half-day online forum on demand to learn how to justify cloud initiatives based on proven best practices, manage the entire cloud lifecycle and more. Here, you can warm up for the forum with this advice and insight from industry experts in these five ideas.

“The Oracle Public Cloud is a little different. The Oracle Public Cloud is both a platform as a service and applications as a service. The key difference is the Oracle Public Cloud is based on industry standards and supports full interoperability with other clouds and your data center on premise.” —Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld in 2011

“Oracle Public Cloud gives companies cloud access to the proven, industry-leading technologies more than 370,000 customers and more than 20,000 partners trust and have been using for years. It will dramatically change the economics and experience of building and running business applications. Oracle is the only company that can provide the depth and breadth of cloud solutions—spanning applications, middleware, and database. That means only Oracle offers the choice and flexibility that comes with complete portability of applications and users between on premises and cloud.” —Tyler Jewell, vice president of product management and strategy at Oracle

“My initial perception of the cloud was that it was a conduit to get to a service, application, or technology. It’s shifted to being an opportunity for enablement. The security services we receive, the technical expertise, and the ability to have our systems managed effectively has all been possible through the cloud.” —Steve Ayala, senior vice president of accounting operations at LPL Financial

“First, I should say our strategy is based on layers of security, so if failure occurs at one level, there is another layer behind it to compensate. One key layer of control is the security information and events management system (SIEM). We have collectors that gather the more than 150 million events that occur every 24 hours across our network. The SIEM then utilizes a correlations engine that we have spent three years fine-tuning. This allows us to uncover the serious events that require human intervention. Security is often about finding a needle in the haystack. SIEM makes the haystack really small.” —Gail Coury, vice president for risk management for Oracle Cloud Services

“To take the lead in Cloud and Shared Services initiatives, IT pros need to change their mindset. It's not just about delivering IT services. It's about delivering business services. Think about how you purchase public cloud services: you don't care about the infrastructure, the upgrade cycles, the management techniques, the capacity limitations. You make a payment and you receive resources that you can use to solve a business problem. IT pros need to mimic this same model with internal cloud services: delivering functionality, masking complexity, and making it easy for the organization to do business with you.” —Oracle's Robert Covington and Brad Goodwin