Take a look at the video for my quick takeaway:
If you don’t have a chance to watch – read on:
Oracle shared the vision of supporting a nested hypervisor for the Oracle Cloud back at Oracle OpenWorld 2015, and re-iterated the direction at the recent Cloud Analyst Summit (see links on these and more takeaways below). Now Oracle pushes further and along those lines – with the acquisition of Ravello Systems the vendor gets access to technology that has been in the market place moving loads to and from public clouds (mostly AWS and Google).
MyPOV
Always got to see vendors delivering on their stated direction and road maps, this is an example of Oracle delivering in the direction of nested hypervisor in the Oracle cloud. This allows Oracle to tackle more load to move to its cloud, without customers having to change and modify the way how their systems run. This is attraction for many enterprises who are not looking at expanding their data center capacity, or move other / often older loads to the public cloud. And for Oracle this means more load, which means better economies of scale for its cloud offering, which means better TCO, which means better prices for customers.We will be watching how Oracle moved forward getting heterogeneous hypervisor load into its cloud. Stay tuned.
Recent blog posts on Oracle:
- Progress Report - Oracle Cloud - More ready than ever, now needs adoption read here
- Event Report - Oracle Openworld 2015 - Top 3 Takeaways, Top 3 Positives & Concerns - read here
- News Analysis - Quick Take on all 22 press releases of Oracle OpenWorld Day #1 - #3 - read here
- First Take - Oracle OpenWorld - Day 1 Keynote - Top 3 Takeaways - read here
- Event Preview - Oracle Openworld - watch here
Future of Work / HCM / SaaS research:
- Event Report - Oracle HCM World - Full Steam ahead, a Learning surprise and potential growth challenges - read here
- First Take - Oracle HCM World Day #1 Keynote - off to a good start - read here
- Progress Report - Oracle HCM gathers momentum - now it needs to build on that - read here
- Oracle pushes modern HR - there is more than technology - read here. (Takeaways from the recent HCMWorld conference).
- Why Applications Unlimited is good a good strategy for Oracle customers and Oracle - read here.
Also worth a look for the full picture
- Event Report - Oracle PaaS Event - 6 PaaS Services become available, many more announced - read here
- Progress Report - Oracle Cloud makes progress - but key work remains in the cellar - read here
- News Analysis - Oracle discovers the power of the two socket server - or: A pivot that wasn't one - TCO still rules - read here
- Market Move - Oracle buys Datalogix - moves more into DaaS - read here
- Event Report - Oracle Openworld - Oracle's vision and remaining work become clear - they are both big - read here
- Constellation Research Video Takeaways of Oracle Openworld 2014 - watch here
- Is it all coming together for Oracle in 2014? Read here.
- From the fences - Oracle AR Meeting takeaways - read here (this was the last analyst meeting in spring 2013)
- Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld LA - read here (this was one of the first cloud world events overall, in January 2013)
And if you want to read more of my findings on Oracle technology - I suggest:
- Progress Report - Good cloud progress at Oracle and a two step program - read here.
- Oracle integrates products to create its Foundation for Cloud Applications - read here.
- Java grows up to the enterprise - read here.
- 1st take - Oracle in memory option for its database - very organic - read here.
- Oracle 12c makes the database elastic - read here.
- How the cloud can make the unlikeliest bedfellows - read here.
- Act I - Oracle and Microsoft partner for the cloud - read here.
- Act II - The cloud changes everything - Oracle and Salesforce.com - read here.
- Act III - The cloud changes everything - Oracle and Netsuite with a touch of Deloitte - read here.