SLIDESHOW: 14 top platforms for data integration by David Weldon via @infomgmt

Informatica, Talend and Oracle are among the leaders in this space, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Interesting list and a few surprises for me too.

Oracle Wants Its Cloud to Grow Inside Your Data Centres by Wylie Wong via @datacenter

Taking a different approach to hybrid cloud than some of its biggest competitors, Oracle has substantially beefed up the capabilities of its on-premises cloud product called Oracle Cloud at Customer. It gives companies the ability to use its cloud services but have them run inside their own data centres.

I can't make up my mind whether this is a good idea or not. I don't like the thought that there is still a cost to you relating to hardware and if the main players in the cloud market have different approaches it messes up the ability to change vendor - hence the nightmare of vendor lock-in feels very real.

WEBINAR: Bring the Benefits of Cloud Managed Services to Your Oracle Applications - 12 May 2016

Webinar Event Details

Date: May 12, 2016
Time: Noon ET/ 9:00 am PT
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A)

What You'll Learn The value of cloud for many data-intensive applications is clear. But what about running Oracle workloads on cloud? Is it safe to move mission-critical business applications like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Oracle Retail, Hyperion, Flexcube, etc. to the cloud? How long will it take you to prepare Oracle instances for development, test, or production? What about Oracle Database, Middleware, and Application license implications? Join Jonathan Miller, Global Oracle Cloud Leader at IBM, and Lucas Wager, IBM Cloud Sales Lead in the UK and Ireland, to learn why and how CxOs and LOB users are reaping benefits of a managed cloud by: • Migrating existing Oracle infrastructure to the Cloud at low risk, low cost, and in short time • Reducing costs by using a managed cloud infrastructure and experienced Oracle staff • Realizing faster service delivery and time to value for Oracle-based business processes • Improving resiliency with high-availability and disaster-recovery options • Leveraging global fiber-optic communications network for Cloud to deliver low-cost, low risk, and timely ROI options to global expansion.

Presenters

Jonathan Miller, IBM Cloud, Global Oracle Leader, Business Line Management worked for Oracle Corporation in Consulting, Global Account Management, Software Development, and as the Vice President of Embedded Technologies and Internet of Things. Moving to IBM, he pioneered Cloud-Based SaaS solutions and now a leader of worldwide sales in Cloud Enterprise Applications.

Lucas Wager, IBM Cloud Sales Lead, is an experienced IT sales leader with over 22 years experience in the IT Marketplace. For the past 2 years Lucas has led the Cloud Services Sales Division in IBM, driving multiple deals across different offerings areas including enterprise applications such as Oracle.

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Oracle Cloud Growth Shows Promise as Company Tops Estimates via @infomgmt

Oracle Cloud Growth Shows Promise as Company Tops Estimates by Brian Womack via +Information Management  - Oracle, facing challenges similar to those of longtime rivals IBM and Microsoft Corp., is starting to show signs of success in the cloud.

Good to see that cloud is starting to make inroads for Oracle as that also suggests it is making inroads generally.

WEBINAR: Customer Spotlight: How WellCare Accelerated Big Data Delivery to Improve Analytics - 30 June 2015

In this webinar, speakers from WellCare, Attunity and Pivotal will discuss how WellCare uses Attunity Replicate to offload data quickly and easily from its SQL Server and Oracle systems into Pivotal Greenplum Database to support real-time reporting and analytics.

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The Basics of Oracle Statistics

Databases uses statistics about data to determine the best way to query tables. Should the database seek or scan? How many rows will be returned from tables that are being joined? Oracle is no exception, but the way Oracle treats statistics is different from SQL Server.

Continue reading here by +Jeremiah Peschka

Why 2015 Will Be Year of Big Data: Oracle's Seven Predictions

Data is a new form of capital. Ultimately, information about people, places and things will truly differentiate enterprises.

Oracle has been handling big data-type workloads in its parallel databases since long before the term "big data"—and even the Internet—was born.

Continue reading here on +eWEEK.com

Oracle Unveils Hadoop Data Exploration Tool

Oracle Big Data Discovery is a visual, business user-friendly alternative to Hadoop tools like Tableau Software, says Oracle.  Read more about it in this article from +InformationWeek and this blog from +Oracle

What you missed in Big Data: major changes afoot from Hadoop to Oracle

Article containing some recent news stories that affect the big data world.

Certainly the money these days is in services and what you can provide to customers so the various alliances described all make economic sense.

What's new in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Details in this article by +Jeremiah Peschka.

I like the increased focus on data warehousing and the increased use of caching (although that needs to be done carefully).

Oracle joins the SQL on Big Data bandwagon

This article on +InformationWeek covers the announcement that Oracle will now provide a tool called Oracle Big Data SQL so that SQL can be used on HADOOP and NoSQL.  Here is the same level of article on ZDNET.

Seems that SQL users/providers are determined to use it on other databases.

Oracle to buy Micros Systems

This article from +Bloomberg News  talks about the deal.  It will add the Oracle's retail presence in the e-commerce and cloud side of things.

Oracle's Customer 2 Cloud programme helps move HCM and CRM solutions customers move to full or part cloud solutions

With the recent announcement of the Oracle Customer 2 Cloud programme any organisation using any of the Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle E-Business Suite product lines can move all or part of their seats from on-premises to cloud.  This should enable organisations to save money on their IT costs for running these systems.  Oracle does of course offer cloud computing including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) although I'm not sure you should put all your eggs in one basket and be tied quite so completely to one company.