Today the term big data draws a lot of attention, but behind the hype there's a simple story. For decades, companies have been making business decisions based on transactional data stored in relational databases. Beyond that critical data, however, is a potential treasure trove of non-traditional, less structured data: weblogs, social media, email, sensors, and…
Read the article: Big Data for the Enterprise (White paper)In-depth Comparison of IBM Smart Analytics System 7700, Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse and Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Data warehousing has emerged as one of the IT world’s fastest growth areas. New deployments continue to accelerate, and numbers of applications and users within organizations continue to expand. Demand for high-quality, current information and for tools…
Read the article: Report: Cost/Benefit of Enterprise Warehouse SolutionsThe creation of data has always been part of the impact of information and communications technology. As the amount of data available for analysis continues to grow, the challenge is for organizations to find the technology that would give them the ability to disseminate, understand and ultimately benefit from the increasing volumes of data. Oracle…
Read the article: Oracle Big Data ApplianceThis self-study and classroom series covers the enterprise-ready framework, database and configuration management, provisioning and patching, and more. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Self-Study training is aimed specifically at administrators who are familiar with the current releases of Enterprise Manager. It is designed to bring existing users up to speed on the new features…
Read the article: Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud ControlThings are heating up in the private cloud appliance world. Meet Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud (EECC), which contains both a full server and storage hardware. It is not an appliance, it is much more! Exalogic is an Engineered System: an assemblage of best-of-breed storage, compute, network, operating system and software products that are integrated, tested,…
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