Everybody in IT know a that the industry swings back and forth between centralized and decentralized processing power. SaaS is a swing to centralized. With oracle shutting down the on-prem business (software and hardware), it will be swimming with its butt naked next time things swing back to decentralized and companies decide to run things on prem again. LE must be thinking that he'll be six feet under when it happens since he clearly doesn't want to invest in the on-prem business. In fact is killings it by not paying sales commissions for it. Dumb move!
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Oracle cloud is 8x slower than on premise but it doesn't matter.
@qcs: Those edge computing devices don't run Oracle DB, don't run on SPARC chips and don't need a beefy disk array to store data.
And of course cloud will not be the be-all end-all solution for everyone. Even if it works for 99% cases, that single percentage point will be where cloud is totally unsuitable and won't work due to latency or bandwidth requirements. Take VR, which induces nausea due to latency or stuttering even with today's high-end devices.
Fair point, though, still not Oracle's game.
And a DNS DDOS attack can cripple your cloud-based business anytime.
Shades of Larry's "network computer" push in the 90's. And Sun's SunRay products in the 2000's. I'd say the cloud is the Mother of all Centralized computing.
Yeah, edge computing is what venture capitalists like Peter Levine sees.
"It wouldn't be practical for each device to use the cloud that smartphones do. Today, phones send everything to the cloud to be processed, the data is stored in the cloud, and the results are returned to the device.
But a self-driving car would have too much data to shift to somewhere to be processed. And it will need the results immediately; it needs to know instantaneously when to break or speed up. Now imagine millions of artificially intelligent devices — cars, drones, medical equipment, manufacturing robots.
"You will never have enough bandwidth and speed on the network between for that," Levine said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/edge-computing-is-the-next-multi-billion-tech-market-2016-12