Oracle Talks Cloud Strategy, Public vs Private Clouds #oow10

I just left the session on Oracle Enterprise Cloud Computing at Oracle Open World which was quite in-depth and dense. Here are the key takeaways or points.

The Cloud: Private vs Public

According to surveys that Oracle has been conducting of their current customer base, they say that most organizations are leaning towards the private cloud vs the public cloud. However the future model is going to be a hybrid approach. The key reasons why organizations are currently in favor of the private cloud are:

Security
Quality of service concerns

In the private cloud most organizations are currently running the following apps:

Financial/accounting
HR
Email/collaboration/communication apps

Evolution of Cloud Space

Oracle outlined an interesting evolution for how they see the cloud space evolving which looks something like this (along with their key elements):

Silod	Grid	Private	Hybrid
physical	virtual	self service	standardization
dedicated	share		interoperability

Cloud Computing Strategy

Oracle also laid out their cloud computing strategy which was broken down into two key areas:

Ensure cloud computing is enterprise grade (see Oracle Introduces Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Outlines Cloud Strategy)
Support both private and public cloud computing, give customers choice

To make this happen Oracle is going to rely on their four quadrants which include:

Oracle on demand
Oracle fusion apps (see: Ellison Kicks Off Oracle Open World with Major Release of Fusion Platform)
Full Oracle software stack. Oracle licenses can now be moved to Amazon cloud computing on EC2
Oracle private cloud computing offerings which are based on either platform as a service or infrastructure as a service (with cloud management)

Broken down it looks like this:

Platform