CIOs need to prepare for the data deluge, according to senior Oracle and EMC executives at Oracle OpenWorld.
In a keynote address, CEO of EMC Joseph Tucci said numbers were staggering. “A study from IDC, called the Digital Universe, has predicted that between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019, information generated will grow 44 times," he said.
“It's the first time I've seen a study measured in zettabytes: that's one followed by 21 zeros. The study also said that 90% of that will be unstructured. This data will come from video rendering, video surveillance, geophysical sequencing, tax data, smart grids, and mobile devices. We're talking about zettabyte scales moving around in petabyte chunks.”
Oracle senior VP of Database Server Technologies, Andy Mendelsohn, said there would be a need to analyse vast amounts of data to determine value to improve on management decisions.
“All industries can potentially benefit from implementing a 'big data' strategy, including healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, retail, and telecommunications,” he said.
Oracle is diving into this market, with a new appliance designed to handle so-called 'big data'.
The new system features:
* Oracle NoSQL Database, a distributed key-value database;
* An open source distribution of Apache's Hadoop suite of distributed data processing software tool;
* The Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop that simplifies creation of massively parallel data processing jobs on Hadoop;
* The Oracle Loader for Hadoop to efficiently load from the Hadoop environment into Oracle Database 11g; and
* An open source distribution of the R statistical programming language.
Oracle says the Big Data Appliance is easily integrated with Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, and the new Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine. It is designed to deliver extreme data processing of all data types, with enterprise-class performance, availability, supportability and security.
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