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Ellison Takes Aim at HANA, But Misses the Big (Data) Picture

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on October 3, 2012


It’s Oracle OpenWorld this week and that means more colorful if factually questionable statements from everybody’s favorite egomaniacal billionaire CEO. And, not surprisingly, Larry Ellison’s target was archrival SAP.

“SAP has an in-memory machine, you know, that’s a little bit smaller than what we offer,” Ellison said at OpenWorld yesterday, referring to SAP HANA and Oracle’s own all in-memory database Exadata X3, which debuted this week. “We have 26 terabytes of memory; [SAP offers] 0.5 terabytes of memory.”

In case you missed his point, Ellison put it as succinctly as he could: “The HANA in-memory machine is, like, really small.” (Hat Tip to eWeek)

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Oracle Looks to Build Big Data Street Cred with Cloudera Partnership

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, Wikibon on January 10, 2012


Oracle added a twist to this morning’s announcement regarding the general availability of its Big Data Appliance and related Big Data connectors. Rather than shipping the appliance with its own Hadoop distribution or the vanilla Apache distribution, Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to include its Hadoop distribution and management software instead.

Originally announced at Open World in October, the Oracle Big Data Appliance is a preconfigured hardware-software bundle running Oracle Linux. It is available in a full rack configuration of 18 Oracle Sun servers and includes the community edition of Oracle’s NoSQL database, an open source distribution of R, and Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine for running MapReduce jobs, in addition to CDH and Cloudera Manager.

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Oracle: Big Data Partner or Big Data Boat Anchor?

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle on October 3, 2011


Larry Ellison announced a new Oracle Hadoop/NoSQL Big Data appliance last night at the opening of OpenWorld. So does the new appliance give Oracle immediate Big Data credibility? Not by a long shot.

Oracle will be considered a true player in the Big Data market if and only if it invests heavily in its new appliance, contributes to the Hadoop community, and truly supports its customers that want to focus their data management infrastructure around Hadoop (and not around Oracle). I don’t see any chance Oracle will hit even one of these three marks.

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Oracle and IBM May Not Know Big Data, But Neither Does Ballmer

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data on June 15, 2011


In a recent interview with InformationWeek, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed that IBM and Oracle don’t understand Big Data. For Ballmer and Microsoft, Big Data doesn’t depend so much on the size of the data, but on the type of data being processed and analyzed.

Specifically, for a data processing and analytics project to qualify as Big Data, it must encompass not just internal corporate data, but also third-party data that resides outside the firewall, according to Ballmer. He said IBM and Oracle limit their Big Data approaches to internal data, thus they are not in fact Big Data by his definition.

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Best Infrastructure Technology Innovations: 2010 Wikibon CTO Awards

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 28, 2011


2010 Wikibon CTO Awards: Apple iPad

In 2010, key trends in infrastructure technology innovation included big data, cloud services, simplicity, virtualization, NAND flash, and data efficiency. We discuss these trends and core technology innovations in our Wikibon article, Best Enterprise Infrastructure Technology Innovations of 2010 and chose our Wikibon 2010 CTO award winners here.

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InfiniBand Market Consolidation: Mellanox Buys Voltaire

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, QLogic, Wikibon on November 29, 2010


Today, Mellanox announced plans to buy Voltaire for $218M.  This is not a surprising move – Voltaire was a customer of Mellanox InfiniBand silicon yet the two companies often were competing head-to-head in the switch market which was driving down the price of both of their businesses.  I heard that OEM customers had been pushing for this marriage of companies for some time so that they can join forces on the low latency marketplace.  Voltaire has a Low-Latency Ethernet product which does not use Mellanox silicon, but I would expect that it will convert to the in-house solution in the future.  While the InfiniBand market has had good growth, consolidation of the supply chain makes sense, vertically integrating to suppliers that provide chips, adapters and switches.  QLogic went from a customer of Mellanox to a competitor with the acquisition of SilverStorm in 2006. Mellanox is the lead supplier of InfiniBand chip technology and now with Voltaire being acquired by Mellanox, we have a horse race with QLogic as the other end-to-end InfiniBand solution provider from chips and switches.

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Oracle Exalogic: Optimization instead of Virtualization

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, VCE, Wikibon on September 21, 2010


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Random Thoughts on Oracle

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on August 4, 2010


Is Oracle the Biggest Whale in the Sea?

 

Oracle is the most interesting of the ‘whale’ companies that I follow. The firm to me is really an M&A company with an enormous software franchise and now a hardware portfolio that is very credible. Ellison and company have an unbelievable track record of making good calls and even the vocal Microsoft bashing of the mid-90′s and the prediction of a thin client Tsunami, while somewhat off-base is coming to fruition more than a decade later. 

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Brocade is “Strategic” to Oracle but QLogic gets the CNA Exclusive

Posted by David Vellante in memeconnect, QLogic, Wikibon on July 26, 2010


Oracle: Major Player with a Big Agenda

Last week Stu Miniman blogged that QLogic CEO H.K. Desai announced to Wall Street on its earnings call that it had begun revenue shipments of its converged network adapter (CNA) product to Oracle. SiliconAngle then followed up Stu’s blog with a post positing that the deal was an exclusive. I haven’t been able to confirm the exclusive but the guys at SiliconAngle are right more often than wrong on these things as they’re heavily plugged into the Silicon Valley insider scene.  Normally firms like to dual source adapters but Sun was one firm that was prone to do exclusives and limit its supplier base—so I suspect SiliconAngle’s take is correct and Oracle is continuing that trend.

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Notes from QLogic Q2’10 Earnings Call

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Wikibon on July 22, 2010


As usual, Intel’s earnings were a bellwether for the high tech market.  Since their positive earnings last week, Apple, EMC, VMware and now QLogic have had solid earnings.

Summary of Remarks from QLogic CEO H.K.Desai

QLogic reported a Net Revenue of $142.6M, “a 16% increase in net revenue and a significant increase in profitability from the first quarter of last year” and seeing growth on FC HBAs, InfiniBand and Converged Network products. Gross Margin corporate average sits around 65% (forecast for the next quarter is 65.5%-66%).  Some general macro economic “nervousness”, especially in Europe.

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