Oracle Chalks out Strategy enabling Customers Tackle Big Data and Make Decisions Faster

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Oracle has unveiled its strategy to help customers meet the challenges posed by Big Data and announced the availability of its Big Data Appliance in India. 

Oracle’s Big Data approach is focused on engineered systems and is aimed at making big data initiatives practical for the enterprise.

“Oracle is the first vendor to offer a complete and integrated solution to address the full spectrum of enterprise Big Data requirements.” said Sundar Ram, Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting, Asia Pacific, Oracle Corporation.  “Oracle’s Big Data strategy is centered on the idea that customers can evolve their current enterprise data architecture to incorporate Big Data and deliver business value, leveraging the proven reliability, flexibility and performance of their Oracle systems” he added.

As per a leading industry analyst firm, in 11 years between 2009 and 2020, the size of the “Digital Universe” will increase 44 fold.  That’s a 41% increase in capacity every year.  In addition, only 5% of this data being created is structured and the remaining 95% is semi-structured in nature.

But the problem is not the creation of the data, but how organizations can locate the relevant information to do deeper and more sophisticated analysis of this data and use it in real time.

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. In fact, the most recent annual survey on data warehousing by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) found that approximately 48% of enterprises expect a significant or moderate increase in the unstructured data analysis over the next five years.

In continuation with its strategy to deliver pre-integrated, pre-tested engineered systems for data management requirements, Oracle has introduced a new engineered system – Oracle Big Data Appliance that combines optimized hardware with the most comprehensive software stack featuring specialized solutions developed by Oracle to deliver a complete, easy-to-deploy solution for acquiring, organizing and analyzing big data. It is designed to deliver extreme analytics on all data types, with enterprise-class performance, availability, manageability and security.  
 
Oracle Big Data Appliance incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R that has been enhanced to run the oracle database. Running on Oracle Linux, the system also features Oracle NoSQL Database and Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine.
This unique Big Data approach from Oracle relieves customers off the integration involved in assembling a suitable set of hardware and software components to create big data architecture. In addition, it allows customers to leverage commercial quality support with the entire system being supported by a single vendor.

Oracle Big Data Appliance, in conjunction with Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Exalytics offers the broadest, most integrated product portfolio to help customers acquire and organize diverse data types, and then analyze them alongside existing enterprise data to discover new insights and make the most informed decisions.