Oracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which it announced last year at Oracle OpenWorld. With no release date promised, the industry was surprised by its relative speed to market. Less surprising was Oracle’s enlistment of Cloudera — the leading provider of Hadoop system management tools — to provide an Apache Hadoop distribution and tools for the appliance. With Cloudera’s established track record and relatively large install base, partnering with the company was almost a no-brainer.
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Oracle Makes Bold, Risky Move With Big Data Appliance Launch
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 11, 2012 08:16 AMOracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which it announced last year at Oracle OpenWorld. With no release date promised, the industry was surprised by its relative speed to market. Less surprising was Oracle’s enlistment of Cloudera — the leading provider of Hadoop system management tools — to provide an Apache Hadoop distribution and tools for the appliance. With Cloudera’s established track record and relatively large install base, partnering with the company was almost a no-brainer.