http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/09/larry_ellison_h.html By Bob Evans Global CIO Blog InformationWeek Sept 21, 2010 Introducing Oracle's new Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine, Larry Ellison opened his remarks by saying that cloud computing has many definitions, and he cited Amazon.com and Salesforce.com as examples of profoundly different cloud approaches. And then he unloaded on Salesforce.com for "commingling" customers' data and offering "a very weak security model." "Maybe the two most well-known examples of cloud computing represent opposite ends of the spectrum," Ellison said in underscoring his contention that cloud computing means many different things to many different people. "On the one hand you have Salesforce.com, a very successful application on the Internet, and a lot of people call that cloud computing—you access the application on the web, it's 10 years old, and it's SaaS technology, and some people say that's cloud computing." As a counterpoint, Ellison then described Amazon.com's EC2 as a hardware/software platform for building and running applications and using Linux, Java, Oracle database, MySQL, and other prominent technologies in a highly virtualized environment that can run a wide variety of applications. "The technology is virtualized so each customer has its own separate, secure, and virtual environment with fault isolation, so most systems failures affect only one customer," Ellison said as even I began to see which way he was tilting. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Sep 22 2010 - 01:03:41 PDT
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