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Due to decreases in the costs of storage and compute power, more and more companies are looking to include non-traditional and less structured - yet potentially very valuable - data (or "Big Data" as it's known) with traditional data for analysis.

Oracle offers the broadest and most integrated portfolio of products to help you acquire and organize these diverse data sources and analyze them alongside your existing data to find new insights and capitalize on hidden relationships.


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Blog: Price Comparison - Big Data Appliance vs. DIY Cluster
This post is aimed at providing a simple apples-to-apples comparison and a clarification of what is, and what is not included in the pricing and packaging of Oracle Big Data Appliance.
posted Tue, 22 May 2012 22:50:19 +0000
Blog: Machine to Machine – The Internet of Things – It’s about the Data
"There is significant opportunity to obtain value from the data that can be collected from the “Internet of Things,” says Tim Hardy. "However the growth of this opportunity is such that scale impacts architecture choices significantly."
posted Fri, 11 May 2012 16:22:04 +0000
Enterprise Architects: Prep for Big Data Changing Your Company
Big Data and analytics will change a company in fundamental ways and affect how enterprise architects do their jobs, according to a recent study.
posted Tue, 01 May 2012 23:46:01 +0000
Blog: An Exalytics Conversation
What might a conversation with a user unfamiliar with Exalytics sound like? Let's take a look….
posted Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:25:55 +0000
Blog: Introduction to Oracle R Connector for Hadoop
The Oracle R Connector for Hadoop provides access to a Hadoop cluster from R, enabling manipulation of HDFS-resident data and the execution of MapReduce jobs.
posted Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:36:30 +0000
Tutorial: Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop
For those of you who want to work with Oracle Data Integrator and its Hadoop capabilities, a good way to start is the newly released self-study course from Oracle University.
posted Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:34:05 +0000
Blog: Big Data - Must Bring Creativity
With most of the technology hurdles removed, how do we get creative about getting value from Big Data?
posted Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:27:58 +0000
Oracle Big Data for the Enterprise eSeminar Series
Whether you are new to Big Data and want to learn the value of Oracle Big Data, or you are already implementing Big Data solutions, you won’t want to miss this eSeminar series.
posted Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:53:06 +0000
Webinar: Big Data and Your Data Warehouse (via The Data Warehousing Institute)
Big Data and your data warehouse can be a powerful team, providing many new analytic applications that enterprises need to stay competitive. But you will need to make some changes to your existing infrastructure, tools and process to integrate big data into your current environment. (April 5, 9am PT)
posted Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:30 +0000
Download ROracle 1.1-1 for R-to-Oracle Database
The open-source ROracle package uses the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) libraries to handle the database connections, providing a high-performance, native C-language interface to the Oracle Database.
posted Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:03:59 +0000
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