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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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The R Programming Language for Programmers Coming from Other Programming Languages
A helpful document for R novices.
posted Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:05:00 +0000
Blog: Oracle Fusion Middleware Newsletter - November Edition (Oracle Fusion Middleware)
Covering a range of topics, including Big Data, Cloud and the Oracle Social Network.
posted Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:47:36 +0000
Oracle NoSQL Database in 5 Minutes (Charles Lamb's Blog)
Inspired by some other "Getting started in 5 minutes" guides, we now have a Quick Start Guide for Oracle NoSQL Database.
posted Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:00:47 +0000
Top Five Tactics for Bridging the Big Data Divide
There’s no doubt that big data contains big value. But mining informational nuggets from the huge volumes of information generated from sources such as Weblogs, social media feeds, smart meters, and other devices requires a strong integration bridge to unite big data with more-structured data sources.
posted Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:04:27 +0000
Using R Within Oracle
Michael Verzijl reports on the “Using R within Oracle” session at a recent BIWA SIG meeting.
posted Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:02:48 +0000
Incorporating Big Data into an Enterprise Information Architecture (from BeyeNetwork)
This BeyeNETWORK spotlight features Ron Powell's interview with George Lumpkin, Oracle VP of Product Managment, Data Warehousing. Ron and George discuss the trends in data warehousing, big data analytics and grid computing, and how Oracle's Exadata platform is taking these trends to a new level.
posted Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:07:21 +0000
First look: Oracle NoSQL Database (from InfoWorld)
"Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious."
posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:11:16 +0000
My Take on Hadoop World 2011 (The Data Warehouse Insider)
I’m sure some of you have read pieces about Hadoop World and I did see some headlines which were somewhat, shall we say, interesting?
posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:10:04 +0000
Read Up on the Overall Big Data Solution
On top of the NoSQL Database release I wanted to share the new paper on big data with all. It gives you an overview of the end-to-end solution as presented at Openworld and places it in context of the importance of big data for our customers.
posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:11:38 +0000
A Closer Look at Oracle Big Data Appliance
What I thought I’d do here is to go through the big data appliance in a little more detail so everyone understands what the make-up of the machine is, what software we are putting on the machine and how it integrates with the Exadata machines.
posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:07:54 +0000
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