I was at All About the Cloud Summit at San Francisco last week and one of the most popular debate was when ISVs should choose Private Cloud vs Public Cloud for hosting their SaaS Application. These are the most common situations when Private Cloud might be most appropriate for the ISV

 - Significant existing Data Center Infrastructure

- Data can not go to outside Provider (Data Sovereignty Issues)

- Security Requirements can not be met by Public Provider

- Latency requirements can not be met by Public Provider

A number of ISVs who develop and deploy using Oracle Platform for SaaS (http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/saas/index.html) were waiting for Oracle technologies to be available as PaaS (subscription based hosting by Oracle). This was officialy launched at Open World this year (http://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:home:0). Please sign up for limited access trial and get the first mover advantage on offering SaaS apps to Oracle ecosystem (380K customers, 20K partners). Not all Oracle Platform components are available yet but the major ones are and more are coming.

There are a *very*limited* number of Oracle Sponsor VIP registrations remaining for CloudExpo (June 6-9, Javits Center, NYC). If you an Oracle partner and doing Cloud architecture and solutions with Oracle Technologies, let me know if you wish to attend. I can check if we can get you the complimentary discount code to register for free.

As more enterprises consolidate their database environments to support private cloud initiatives, ISVs will have to deal with sceanrios where they need to run on a shared powerful database server like Exadata. Some ISVs are concerned about meeting SLAs for performance in a shared environment. Outside the virtualization world, there are capabilities of Oracle Database which can be used to prevent resource contention and guarantee SLA. These capabilities are -