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Jamie Kinney, a business development manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS), led a session on deploying Oracle TimesTen in-memory database technology on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. "We can offer you 10 million transactions per day for just under $20," he told a room of about a hundred attendees. The equivalent hardware to drive this kind of perfomance would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Costs, performance keep data close to home Steven Winter, a senior database engineer at Gracenote, a subsidiary of Sony Corp., said the company's database is the core of Gracenote's business, and for that reason, it will never run on anyone else's infrastructure. Gracenote runs a massive database that includes all the metadata for the music stored on iTunes. Every time someone downloads a song, iTunes makes a call to Gracenote's database for the details on that piece of music. Other than wanting to keep Gracenote's crown jewels in-house, Winter believes the costs for cloud services don't make sense. "Hardware, memory and servers are getting cheaper; the expensive part of our business in terms of IT is developing the software," he said. Representatives from federal agencies also attended the session, but more for educational purposes than anything else.
Wassim Kheirallah, a database administrator at QinetiQ, an IT contractor to the government, echoed this sentiment and added that many agencies still run Oracle 9i and are a long way off from using cloud services. "If Amazon developed a version of AWS for the government, then it might be possible. But it would have to be locked down for their use only," he said. Even in the social media space, a sector more amenable to Internet-based computing, the idea of Oracle in the cloud didn't resonate. "Data partitioning is not easy to do in the cloud," said John Harris, a senior database engineer at the online site myYearbook.com. He added that his company runs thousands of nodes and can buy hardware cheaply itself and be up and running in production in a day. "The use case we see is really for startups that can't afford the capital equipment costs," he said. One such company is Inyxa, a startup in the supply chain software market. "We're hosted with a small provider, and we're concerned that as we grow it won't be reliable enough. … The biggest advantage of moving to something like Amazon, for us, would be scale," said a business development manager at Inyxa. The potential cost savings of using the cloud did jell with some users. Akovi Wilson, a senior database administrator at SunGard, said his primary job is supporting three universities as a remote DBA. He's interested in setting up Oracle training environments on AWS to train college adminstrators. "Cloud would definitely be a cheaper option for this," he said. "They need to keep their IT staff up to date but have no money for training." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009年10月15日木曜日
オラクルユーザは総じてクラウドが嫌いみたいです。
今週SFで開催されているOracle WorldでAmazon Web Serviceが自社EC2上でOracle10を実装し、非常に低価格なDBサービスを発表したところ、どうもOracleのユーザ層での受けが悪いようだ、という記事。
システム運用のコストの大半はソフトウェア開発にあり、すでに大量のソフト資産をOn Premiseで持っている企業にとってはクラウドはあまり魅力無い、という意見。
