Untitled Document It was time to update this post a little. Big Data Appliance grew, got more features and prices as well as insights just changed all across...
Untitled Document It was time to update this post a little. Big Data Appliance grew, got more features and prices as well as insights just changed all across the board. So, here is an update. The post is still 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 when compared to "I'm doing this myself - DIY style". Oracle Big Data Appliance Details A few of...
Untitled Document It was time to update this post a little. Big Data Appliance grew, got more features and prices as well as insights just changed all across the board. So, here is an update. The post...
Oracle Big Data Appliance Version 2.5 was released last week. Some great new features in this release- including a continued security focus (on-disk encryption...
Oracle Big Data Appliance Version 2.5 was released last week. Some great new features in this release- including a continued security focus (on-disk encryption and automated configuration of Sentry for data authorization) and updates to Cloudera Distribution of Apache Hadoop and Cloudera Manager. With each BDA release, we have a new release of Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine. Oracle Big Data Lite provides an integrated environment to help you get started with the...
Oracle Big Data Appliance Version 2.5 was released last week. Some great new features in this release- including a continued security focus (on-disk encryption and automated configuration of Sentry...
Security has been an important theme across recent Big Data Appliance releases. Our most recent release includes encryption of data at rest and automatic...
Security has been an important theme across recent Big Data Appliance releases. Our most recent release includes encryption of data at rest and automatic configuration of Sentry for data authorization. This is in addition to the security features previously added to the BDA, including Kerberos-based authentication, network encryption and auditing. Auditing data access across the enterprise - including databases, operating systems and Hadoop - is critically important and...
Security has been an important theme across recent Big Data Appliance releases. Our most recent release includes encryption of data at rest and automatic configuration of Sentry for...
With the release of Big Data Appliance software bundle 2.5, BDA completes the encryption story underneath Cloudera CDH. BDA already came with network...
With the release of Big Data Appliance software bundle 2.5, BDA completes the encryption story underneath Cloudera CDH. BDA already came with network encryption, ensuring no network sniffing can be applied in between the nodes, it now adds encryption of data-at-rest. A Brief Overview Encryption of data-at-rest can be done in 2 modes. One mode leverages the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on the motherboard to provide a key to encrypt the data on disk. This mode does not require...
With the release of Big Data Appliance software bundle 2.5, BDA completes the encryption story underneath Cloudera CDH. BDA already came with network encryption, ensuring no network sniffing can...
The certification of Oracle Big Data Connectors on Intel Distribution for Hadoop now complete (see our previous post). This video from Strata gives you a nice...
The certification of Oracle Big Data Connectors on Intel Distribution for Hadoop now complete (see our previous post). This video from Strata gives you a nice overview of IDH and BDC.
Intelpartnered with Oracle to certify compatibility between Intel®Distribution for Apache Hadoop* (IDH) and Oracle Big Data Connectors*. Users can now connect...
Intelpartnered with Oracle to certify compatibility between Intel®Distribution for Apache Hadoop* (IDH) and Oracle Big Data Connectors*. Users can now connect IDH to Oracle Database withOracle Big Data Connectors, taking advantage of the high performance feature-rich components of that product suite. Applications on IDH can leverage the connectors forfast load into Oracle Database, in-place query of data in HDFS with Oracle SQL,analytics in Hadoop with R, XQuery processing...
Intelpartnered with Oracle to certify compatibility between Intel®Distribution for Apache Hadoop* (IDH) and Oracle Big Data Connectors*. Users can now connect IDH to Oracle Database withOracle Big...
You've been hearing alot about Oracle's big data platform. Today, we're pleased to announce Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine - an environment to help you...
You've been hearing alot about Oracle's big data platform. Today, we're pleased to announce Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine - an environment to help you get started with the platform. And, we have a great OTN Virtual Developer Day event scheduled where you can start using our big data products as part of a series of workshops. Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine is an Oracle VM VirtualBox that contains many key components of Oracle's big data platform, including: Oracle...
You've been hearing alot about Oracle's big data platform. Today, we're pleased to announce Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine - an environment to help you get started with the platform. And, we...
CaixaBank is Spain’s largest domestic bank by market share with a customer base of 13.7 It is also Spain’s leading bank in terms of innovation and technology,...
CaixaBank is Spain’s largest domestic bank by market share with a customer base of 13.7 It is also Spain’s leading bank in terms of innovation and technology, and one of the most prominent innovators worldwide. CaixaBank has been recently awarded the title of the World’s Most Innovative Bank at the 2013 Global Banking Innovation Awards (November 2013). Like most financial services companies CaixaBank wants to get closer to its customers by collecting data about their...
CaixaBank is Spain’s largest domestic bank by market share with a customer base of 13.7 It is also Spain’s leading bank in terms of innovation and technology, and one of the most prominent innovators...
As a follow-on to the previous post (here) on use cases, follow the link below to a recording that explains how to go about expanding the data warehouse into a...
As a follow-on to the previous post (here) on use cases, follow the link below to a recording that explains how to go about expanding the data warehouse into a big data platform. The idea behind it all is to cover a best practice on adding to the existing data warehouse and expanding the system (shown in the figure below) to deal with: Real-Time ingest and reporting on large volumes of data A cost effective strategy to analyze all data across types and at large volumes...
As a follow-on to the previous post (here) on use cases, follow the link below to a recording that explains how to go about expanding the data warehouse into a big data platform. The idea behind it...
