Amazon recently added Oracle database hosting capabilities to its RDS service
offering. You can rent an Oracle database related infrastructure in a
pay-as-you-go fashion now. We are going to explore if corporations should be
utilizing Amazon AWS Oracle Database related services (EC2, RDS ), how it
should be used, where possible savings and potential trouble points are. With
services like Amazon AWS it doesn't matter where your hardware and software
physically is - it could be in a room next to you or in some other country.
It is much easier and cheaper to procure and get new servers up and running.
What's Really New?
You swipe your credit card and get an Oracle database server up and running
in half an hour. Sounds like magic, especially if you compare it to the weeks
and months it normally takes to have an Oracle database server operational in
an average enterprise ... (more)
Amazon Web Services EC2 Cloud is full scale public data center offering
services that are in many aspects far ahead of ancient practices present in
regular IT environments. Fast provisioning and virtually unlimited scale make
old fashioned server procurement and installations look like what they are -
past century's practices. This article will not deal with usual objections to
cloud computing revolving around change management difficulties ( how to
incorporate new environment into the existing IT infrastructure ), security,
reliability, performance etc. since we think that all t... (more)
Big Data and its most prominent technical ingredient, Machine Learning, are
all the rage these days, as IT industry is trying to convince companies
technology revolution is underway. ( "If you are not doing it, your
competitors sure are, and by the time you realize it, it will be too late" ).
Data fracking, i.e. Big Data, is 21 century new oil of that will power and
grease stalled industries and reignite growth, or so the story goes.
While advanced analytics (it comes under various names - predictive
analytics, data mining, and data science, more recently) is great and in use
fo... (more)
The Oracle Database Cloud is Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) so it only makes
sense to compare it to Oracle on Amazon RDS. Oracle on Amazon EC2, on the
other hand, is an IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service ) offering, which gives
you full control over the installation, features and actions around your
database.
Oracle Public Cloud will consist of a number of major services, the Oracle
Database Cloud being one of them. Please refer here for a complete list of
services. One of the most interesting characteristics of the Oracle Database
Cloud is that there is no need to purchase d... (more)
Hadoop is designed to store extremely large volumes of data. HBase, an open
source NoSQL data store, makes it possible to randomly access such large data
sets. HBase is included in Cloudera's Hadoop distribution.
One of the major obstacles to a wider adoption of NoSQL databases is the lack
of query languages, i.e., lack of comprehensive non-programmatic interfaces
to data inside NoSQL data store. We expect NoSQL databases to come up with
such query languages in near future. In meantime, Quest's Toad for Cloud
fills this gap and makes it easy to seamlessly access NoSQL, Cloud and ... (more)
Ranko Mosic, BScEng, is specializing in Big Data/Data Architecture consulting services ( database/data architecture, machine learning ).
His clients are in finance, retail, telecommunications industries.
Ranko is welcoming inquiries about his availability for consulting engagements and can be reached at 408-757-0053 or ranko.mosic@gmail.com
Charles Araujo
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