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The Cloud: making IT a commodity

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One of the majors improvements powered by the Cloud paradigm is making IT a commodity. The IT industry, however, was not able to take advantage of this new reality. In the Cloud world Business, literally, meets Consumers.  IT giants are having great difficulties adapting to this new, empowered and consumer-centric, working model. These giants are used to collect partners, which in turn sell their products to IT managers and CIOs. This traditional business model is having some difficulties imposing itself in the Cloud  and I, sincerely, do not believe this would happen, at least in a short term and without some model redefinition. That being said, it is time for business owners, CEOs, entrepreneurs and department managers (among others) to update themselves, to redefine their business.

How the Cloud is changing businesses

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According to VentureBeat.com: “A slew of new offerings in the cloud are helping even the tiniest of businesses look and act like big companies”. This is, in my opinion, a new reality arising from the Cloud paradigm. New ways of working are allowing small companies to, easily and in a low cost basis, spread their products around the world and act, in the global market, like big companies with a fraction of the costs. However, to obtain these results, managers need to be open mind about new ways of thinking and new ways of doing business: the Cloud way.

ORACLE + Virtualiron: the Cloud is agitated!

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After buying SUN, ORACLE has now moved towards VirtualIron, one important player of the Virtualization World. According to Ed Walsh, President and CEO of Virtual Iron Software, Inc.: “The combination of Virtual Iron with Oracle is expected to provide comprehensive and dynamic virtualization management across the full data center stack. Oracle VM, combined with Virtual Iron, is expected to deliver extensive virtualization management features including dynamic resource and capacity management and streamlined network and storage configuration capabilities on top of a scalable, highly available, and high performance server platform.“. In my opinion, ORACLE is coming late to the cloud paradigm, but is definitely taking some shortcuts.