EMC Isilon With Native Hadoop Analytics

EMC Corporation announced that Isilon scale-out NAS with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), combined with its Greenplum HD, delivers data analytics on a flexible, scalable and efficient storage platform.

This enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and certification, and customer support from a single vendor. With this solution, EMC eliminates CIOs’ need to spend time investigating and integrating products from multiple vendors.

As the amount of unstructured data in the enterprise grows, companies require an efficient and scalable storage system to help them manage growth, and an analytics tool to derive valuable information from this data. EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with native HDFS provides Hadoop users with built-in access to a shared storage infrastructure thereby bridging the gap between the innovative powers of Big Data Hadoop and mission critical enterprise IT analytics.

Isilon scale-out NAS, now integrated with HDFS protocol, provides customers with a solution for accelerating enterprise-wide deployment of Apache-based Hadoop. Up to now, early adopters of Hadoop have relied on makeshift storage infrastructures not optimized for big data exploration, inhibiting the shared data access critical to robust analysis, and preventing wide adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise. EMC Isilon, with native HDFS, removes the integration complexities of disparate open source components and hardware, and offers an enterprise storage solution to protect, manage, and share data in a Hadoop environment.

EMC provides all Hadoop users with built-in access to enterprise data protection, storage efficiency and accelerated data movement over an array of industry standard protocols (NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP). Isilon’s integration of HDFS also eliminates the single point of failure inherent with traditional open-source Apache Hadoop. This integration lets customers use the Apache-based Hadoop distribution of their choice and allows them to expand and increase their adoption of Hadoop in enterprise-wide deployments.

EMC offers enterprises planning, deployment, training and certification, and customer support services to assist customers moving to Hadoop environments. EMC Global Services Big Data Advisory Service helps customers identify business opportunity and build a roadmap to apply big data to their enterprises. EMC services professionals can configure and integrate Greenplum and Isilon platforms into users’ environments, accelerating time to value and reducing risk. EMC Data Science and Big Data Analytics ‘open’" training and certification builds customers’ IT staff data analytics knowledge and skills with a focus on opportunities and challenges presented by big data.

By combining the scalability of Isilon scale-out NAS storage with the analytics tools of Greenplum HD, EMC delivers an Hadoop solution ready for deployment in business critical enterprise IT environments.

Alex Younts, engineer, Purdue University, said:" We tested EMC Isilon with our statistics department, which must often analyze huge data sets. EMC Isilon’s multi-protocol capabilities provided fast and reliable delivery of data to our statisticians, demonstrating the potential to increase the time spent on actually doing the science, while reducing management costs."

Benjamin Woo, program vice president of worldwide storage systems, IDC, said:" IDC predicts that in 2012 enterprises will accelerate Hadoop adoption and deployment. Hadoop is becoming a viable competitor to existing storage systems for Big Data analytics, but fear can stand in the way. An investment by an industry leader like EMC casts a vote of confidence for Hadoop environments and makes the technology much more palatable. EMC’s comprehensive Hadoop solution brings enterprises one step closer to unlocking the enormous value currently hidden within their volumes of Big Data."

Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, EMC Isilon, said:" Hadoop will be a game-changer in unstructured data analytics once enterprise customers are convinced that adoption can simplify their infrastructure and architecture without compromising data security or management capabilities. We’ve taken the guesswork out of Hadoop deployment by bringing together the strengths of Isilon’s enterprise scale-out NAS storage systems with the Hadoop ecosystem. With EMC Isilon, enterprises now have the type of archiving, replication and management capabilities their businesses rely on combined with the innovative analytics of EMC Greenplum and the training, services and support of EMC to make the most of their Hadoop deployments."

Luke Lonergan, chief technology officer, Greenplum, a division of EMC, said:" Companies are recognizing the need to co-process both structured and unstructured data. As a part of the EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), the integrated Isilon solution enables customers to plug Hadoop-derived insight directly into a structured data analytics workflow without moving the data. This improves collaboration and speeds data analytics for our customers, enabling them to uncover new insights quickly and efficiently to maintain their competitive edge."

EMC Greenplum HD on Isilon is available through EMC and its channel partners.