Monday 6 July 2015

The next phase in virtual computing



Tracing back to the history of virtual computing in the early 1960’s IBM had a wide range of systems; each generation of which was substantially different from the previous. This made it difficult for customers to keep up with the changes and requirements of each new system. Also, computers could only do one thing at a time. If you had two tasks to accomplish, you had to run the processes in batches. This Batch processing requirement wasn’t too big of a deal to IBM since most of their users were in the Scientific Community and up until this time Batch processing seemed to have met the customers’ needs.

These hit me at my latest times but I think o got it right? Today, students and even office staff can reserve and log in to the Virtual Computing Lab anytime, anywhere from their own PCs or laptops. What's more, this remote-access system lets users choose the software they need, including industrial strength computer-assisted design (CAD) and engineering programs that take more memory than they have on their own systems. 

Virtual computing makes one computer act and perform like many computers. Through virtual computing providers, users can download and use more than one operating system and perform a multitude of functions at the same time through a single mouse click and receive all the benefits of additional programs and hardware without having to purchase or install them on their own computer. Executives can check their company e-mail on the road, students can take classes from home and managers can keep up with documents stored on internal servers from anywhere in the world. These is an amazing technology that if emblazed in the current memory intensive company and even institutional levels, with proper implementations technology will have saves a notch.

While there are many reasons for using virtual computing services, some people have gotten creative in their reasoning. Because all applications run remotely, some users log in to the Internet to do all their surfing through a virtual computer. This enables them to access files without worrying about hidden pages sabotaging their system. The added benefit is that they can surf and electronically communicate without worrying about infected files

The absolute value of transformation { Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) }



Since Oracle entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle acquired Sun common stock, The acquisition of Sun transformed the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle up to time has been the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves.

We as customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up. These is evident from the Java and Solaris.
Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. 

Oracle writes its Fusion apps in Java. Owning Sun kept Java out of the hands of a competitor (e.g. IBM who was also interested in buying Sun) and, along with its database community, further increased Oracle’s influence over developers.

The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database, Oracle’s largest business, and has been for a long time. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris.

But here comes the disclaimer: is MYSQL competing with oracle? Yes, it seems that way. I think that if Oracle gains ownership of MySQL, that might be bad for competition in the database market. But does MySQL even serve the same market as Oracle? Are the two really competing against each other? But there is an internal effort to assist Sun / MySQL customers in migrating from Oracle to MySQL by offering them a comprehensive solution that consists of Professional Services, Best Practices, and a set of approved third party migration tools and utilities that will enable them to move to MySQL in a way that is as easy as possible.

Sometimes it gets tiresome when people take shots at Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server 2008, or PostgreSQL. When I went to the MySQL for Database Administrators, the instructor mentioned a number of times how many Oracle people he’d get in his class. It was said almost as if all the Oracle customers were migrating to MySQL, which I don’t think is the case. If I’m wrong just post a comment.

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