You may have seen today's announcement on the availability of the new Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Starter Rack and Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 In-Rack Expansion. The new Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Starter Rack is designed to jumpstart Big Data projects with optimally sized configurations of the appliance. The Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 In-rack Expansion helps organizations to cost-effectively scale out the Big Data Appliance as data volumes grow.
While the availability of new Big Data Appliance hardware options is exciting news, there was another announcement made that could have been easily overlooked but one that I contend is no less exciting - the availability of Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Oracle Big Data Appliance.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll recall that back in January we announced Oracle IaaS with Capacity On Demand as a new offering enabling customers to acquire Oracle Engineered Systems hardware on-premise for a monthly fee and eliminate upfront capital expenditures. Now, Oracle Big Data Appliance (Full Racks only) hardware is also available through Oracle IaaS, joining Oracle Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, SPARC SuperCluster, and ZFS Storage Appliance which were all previously announced as eligible for Oracle IaaS.
For more information about either Oracle IaaS with Capacity On Demand or Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2, please contact your Oracle sales rep today.