Larry Ellison on cloud computing, with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club 9.21.09

[RocknRollhoochiecoo1]

His leg crossing is so sexy.

[tobybooth]

And today he decided to announce Oracle Public Cloud. Really? So Larry, tell me... what do YOU mean by cloud?

[ninuxy]

Accessing information over a network, as he simplistically averred, is entirely different from being able to allocate resources on demand depending on the need, workload, etc., to save money.

Larry is a charlatan and his entire company runs as one big marketing scam, pushed by the salesmen who do anything to shove their bloated, ineffectual products down companies' throat.

I know at least two dozen architecture level techies in large corporations who are clamoring over Oracle products.

[MrCuntyballs2U]

Shit he does not even know he is a dinosaur...... Extinction beckons

[1234fuckubitch]

Cloud is nothing but a backup system for your machine

[msbrando]

This is another proof that USA is not innovating anymore. The industry just change the term to ''cloud computing'' to everything we already do like e-mails, software as a service, etc.

Today, renting a server is "cloud computing''. it is ridiculous and very worry.

For Oracle, it will be even better. People don't understand in what market companies like Oracle is. They are in the "cloud computing'' market, as it is know today. Oracle, IBM are gonna do so well with data center.

[msbrando]

Please, Larry Ellison and Oracle have been offering Software As a Service, means, "cloud computing" for today marketing strategy. So it is nothing new at all. I remember working in a company in late 90s and we used Oracle software and that software were in the Oracle data center.

When he says about "Sand Hill Road", is because it is where there are a lot of "Venture Capital Firms" and they came out with the marketing term "CLOUD COMPUTING".

Simple like that.

[dkamle234]

complete crap..this guy doesnt have intelligence

[RocknRollhoochiecoo1]

God the boldness to challenge the bandwagoning in business only Larry could get away with it it s better than Jay Leno or Letterman interviews he rules.

[RocknRollhoochiecoo1]

This is hysterical I love this he is so much fun he is,

[jppputube]

he is not missing the point, he is deliberately trying to confuse the point while thinking he is so clever. "Cloud Computing" never meant that you get computing done by any kind of vapour. It was a term made to emphasize that the users are unaware or unaffected by the details of the computing infrastructure they use. Users dont need to know which OS or CPU or Database engine is delivering service (its probably the last bit that pissed off this c()cksucker.

[ericsdrunk]

@jppputube so an average end user sitting at a an average office desk knows what OS, CPU and Database behind his/her browser?

[Clivesvlogs]

VC nitwits on Sandhill Road [ well said Larry ]

[hellzone2206]

omg

cloud video

hehehe :D

[garyland7]

Larry hasn't missed anything, he never does... If you think Oracle will be missing from the "cloud" you're sorely mistaken. He's not missing the point, he's schooling you, only you decided not to attend.

[jinn13]

Does anyone else loathe this dude? I don't even know the guy and I can't stand him. Just reeks of superficiality and ego.

[osensei2987]

They call it CLOUD because you won't be able to see the exploitation and oppression that will be used to maintain it. Your vision will be "CLOUDED".

[osensei2987]

In the US, when Jimmy Carter left office in 1980 there was a huge recession going on. Republicans quickly gave credit for the recovery to Reagan and Reaganomics. But I know that it was the advent of the PC and the information age that brought us from the brink. The multi-nationalists have, since that time, been working over-time trying to figure out how to dismantle our technology infrastructure and shop it out to 3rd world slave labor! Kiss the middle class goodbye if they succeed!

[faustrmp75]

Larry is so right ... :o)

@erikslimanad: IaaS isn't new, it's not essentially different from what Grid Computing is doing since about a decade ...; SaaS is basically ASPs and Web Services and PaaS is also an old story ... these things may all be improving lately, but the only REAL novelty about Cloud Computing is the incredible hype ... :o)

[osensei2987]

The big difference is in getting rid of middle class IT workers in the west and replacing them with beggars in India or China that work in vast complexes of sweat shops.

[turrell71]

curious if Larry is worried that most of Oracle licensing is on a per seat basis and cloud delivery will make it very hard to track how many seats and severely reduce revenues...

[rolexx]

Once again, Larry is right on the money...

[erikslimanad]

There are 3 primary layers to cloud, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. The latter is what he references the most when he discusses hardware, networking and databases. What is new in IaaS is that the consumer need not own any of this.

Virtualization and automation technologies create cloud concepts such as elasticity of demand and rapid provisioning. A computer network can reside in a cloud and non-cloud infrastructure; you can distinguish which it is in using cloud concepts.

[tazaguru1]

Is it just me or anyone having audio problem? I get to LOL on most part but some places its left to guess work.

But still, I love his passion and his pun on several pointers are truth. GO! Larry!

[albanaco]

Larry certainly appears to have missed the whole point of the term...cloud computing is simply a recognition of the fact that enough Internet hardware has been deployed that it is now possible to architect high-level solutions around the "cloud" without having to be specifically concerned about the feasibility of the interconnections between the actors in the solution...of course, Larry's not that dumb...he is simply trying to shift the marketing buzz back toward Oracle..

[osensei2987]

Deployment means absolutely nothing. Management is the key. Anyone can connect a bunch of servers that host applications to the internet. The question is, "How do you quickly implement new customers and initiate services in a way that reduces manual configuration?". Also one has to manage accounts, monitor usage, enforce security, bill customers, etc. The software need to manage a cloud and the standardization of such is key.

[PlanetOfTheMonkeys]

@albanaco

If you want to compute "in the cloud", interconnects should be your #1 concern.

If your cloud is too far away, the speed of light on those interconnects is the concern.

Compuserve in 1984 could be easily classified as cloud computing by 2010 standards. Email, news, same interface, all just a modem call away from any terminal in the world!

Larry is spot on, no amount of marketing terminology can change the reality of a computer network... running since 1969... in a cloud! :)

[moeskido]

CLOUD!

[Trees4Tomorrow]

gotta love Larry's passion........he's right........simply coming up with a slogan is not creating new technology!