Migrating to the Cloud: Oracle Client/Server Modernization

Whether your company is planning on database migration, desktop application migration, or has IT infrastructure consolidation projects, this book gives you all the resources you'll need. It gives you recommendations on tools, strategy and best practices and serves as a guide as you plan, determine effort and budget, design, execute and roll your modern Oracle system out to production. Focusing on Oracle grid relational database technology and Oracle Fusion Middleware as the target cloud-based architecture, your company can gain organizational efficiency, agility, increase innovation and reduce IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by moving to service-oriented, Web-based cloud architectures.

• Focuses on Oracle architecture, Middleware and COTS business applications
• Explains the tools and technologies necessary for your legacy migration
• Gives useful information about various strategies, migration methodologies and efficient plans for executing migration projects

About the Authors

Tom Laszewski has more than 20 years of experience in databases, middleware, software development, management, and building strong technical partnerships. He is currently the director of cloud migrations in the Oracle Platform Migrations Group. His main responsibility is successful completion of cloud migration projects initiated through the Oracle partner ecosystem and Oracle Sales. These migration projects involve mainframe service enablement and integration, mainframe rehost and rearchitecture, and Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, and other relational database migrations. Tom works on a daily basis with TCS, Infosys, and niche migration system integrators, customer technical architectures, CTOs and CIOs, and Oracle account managers to ensure the success of migration projects. Tom also works with cloud service providers to assist in their migration of current non-Oracle-based offerings to an Oracle-based platform. This work involves solution architecture of Oracle-based cloud solutions utilizing Oracle Exadata, Oracle Virtual Server, and Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Before Oracle, Tom held technical and project management positions at Sybase and EDS. He has provided strategic and technical advice to several startup companies in the database, blade, XML, and storage areas. Tom holds a master of science degree in computer information systems from Boston University.

Prakash Nauduri has more than 19 years of experience working with databases, middleware, and development tools/technologies. In his current role as technical director in the Platform Migrations Group at Oracle, he is responsible for promoting adoption of Oracle products such as Oracle Exadata, Exalogic, Oracle Database, and Fusion Middleware in non-Oracle-to-Oracle platform migrations as well as assisting cloud service providers in development of Oracle-based cloud offerings. Before joining Oracle, Prakash worked with automotive companies in India, namely Hero Group and Eicher Tractors Ltd., as developer/database administrator/system analyst. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Berhampur University in Orissa, India.