Cloud Computing and Oracle’s Standards

More often than not, lack of standardization can add to the complexity of measuring and deploying emerging technologies. Consider cloud computing, for example. The fact that cloud services can give the user on-demand computing resources makes it a very attractive prospect for many businesses. A company can choose to host their services internally (on a private cloud) or remotely (on a public cloud). Regardless of this choice, monitoring of performance, usage, and security is crucial. Generally speaking, cloud computing services result in a simplification of IT tasks, but sometimes, they can make the application environment very complex. Such complexity leads to the need for stringent, globally applicable and accepted standards for managing infrastructure and other aspects of cloud computing.

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