Oracle releases new product

Oracle has announced the new release of Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Big Data Connectors empowering organisations to capitalise on the opportunity of big data to help transform their businesses.
The Oracle handout says Big Data Appliance X3-2 is a cost-effective, engineered system of hardware and software that has been upgraded
to include Intel's new processors and the
latest release of Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager, as well as the new Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for Big Data Appliance.
Oracle Big Data Connectors have been enhanced to enable greater SQL access to Hadoop from Oracle Database and to enable more transparent access to Hadoop from R.