Executives from both Microsoft and Oracle discussed their visions of cloud computing at Cloud Expo in New York this week–while Microsoft was touting the public model and Oracle the private or internal cloud, both companies were able to come to some consensus about the future of cloud computing. While Microsoft and Oracle don’t always have much to agree on, they did concur that the hybrid cloud model is one of the best ways for enterprise to maximize their use of the cloud. Oracle’s Stern suggested that the best way for enterprise to approach this topic is to come up with an enterprise infrastructure that implicates the hybrid model where some routine work is handled in-house while the elastic needs of of more compute-heavy operations is moved into the public cloud.
Microsoft, Oracle Differ on Cloud Visions
April 23, 2010