Oracle VM 3 Cloud Implementation and Administration Guide, 2nd Edition

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Overview of OracleEnterprise ManagerCloud Control

Ever since computers became practical for business use, the industry has experienced a consistent trend of reinvention. Generally, once every decade, the industry reinvents itself to provide a better return on investment. Consistent architecture advancements have led to the modern concept of cloud computing, including private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid clouds. These advancements date back to the 1960s with the adoption of the monolithic mainframe as businesses started migrating workloads to computers. In the 1970s, the precursor to the modern public cloud—timeshare computing—saw ...