Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
January 18, 2012
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
The Oracle Big Data Appliance, an engineered system of hardware and software that was first unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld in October, is now generally available. The new system incorporates Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH3) with Cloudera Manager 3.7, plus an open source distribution of R. The Oracle Big Data Appliance represents "two industry leaders coming together to wrap their arms around all things big data," says Cloudera COO Kirk Dunn.
Think About It
CIOs and IT departments are on the frontlines of a monumental IT shift. With the number of mobile devices and applications exploding and bandwidth soaring, they are being asked to find ways to enable the brave new world of enterprise mobility. All involved - from users to IT - recognize the productivity and business efficiency benefits of this trend, but it is typically only IT that also recognizes the dangers unchecked mobility poses to sensitive corporate data.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
Was one of your New Year resolutions to get the security patches applied in a timely and efficient manner? Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update was released yesterday, and IOUG recommends that you apply security patches on a regular basis in order to maintain the security posture of your Oracle environment. Having procedures already in place will make a rollout of these patches easier allowing for pre-checks of the environment and databases, applying the patches, testing and validations and any post-scripts that should run.