Oracle unveils Big Data plans

Oracle has unveiled its Big Data appliance India, in order to meet the challenges faced by the customers posed by humongous data.

''Oracle's Big Data strategy is centered on the idea that customers can evolve their current enterprise data architecture to incorporate Big Data appliance, and deliver business value, leveraging the proven reliability, flexibility and performance of their Oracle systems,'' said Sunder Ram, VP, technology sales consulting, Asia-Pacific, Oracle.

To make the most of big data, organizations are now looking at evolving their IT infrastructures to handle the rapid rate of delivery of extreme volumes of data, with varying data types, which can then be integrated with an organization’s other enterprise data to be analyzed.

''We believe, verticals like BFSI, retail, media, and government sectors will adopt Big Data immediately owing to the enormous data flow, while sectors such as healthcare and telecom are likely to be among the early adopters before most verticals adopt Big Data solutions,'' added Sunder.

Oracle's Big Data appliance combines optimized hardware, with a comprehensive software stack, featuring specialized solutions developed by Oracle to deliver a complete, easy to deploy solution for acquiring, organising and analyzing big data.

The appliance incorporates Cloudera's distribution including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R, enhanced to run the oracle database and running on Oracle Linux.
The system also features Oracle NoSQL database and Oracle HotSpot Java virtual machine.

Oracle Big Data Appliance can be used for staging and ETL processes that need to occur upstream of the data warehouse. The included Oracle Loader for Hadoop can then be used to transfer the data in parallel into Oracle Exadata. Oracle Exadata can readily use data that comes from an Oracle Big Data Appliance in conjunction with data already in the data warehouse.