Data Analytics Solution for Alluxio Enterprise Edition and Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage

Alluxio, Inc. (formerly Tachyon) announced a solution with Alluxio Enterprise Edition (AEE) and Dell EMC‘s Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) for big data workloads.

This solution is designed to help Dell EMC ECS enterprise customers deliver more value from data as they transition their businesses to meet the demands of a digital economy.

“Global 2000 enterprises are pushing their data centers to become digital growth engines to expand software development capabilities and enable faster innovation and deeper insights from data,” said Manuvir Das, SVP and GM, advanced software division, Dell EMC. “Integration with Alluxio helps us meet customer demand for more flexibility and higher performance in big data workload analytics.“

The company provides a unified view of enterprise data that spans disparate storage systems, locations and clouds, allowing any big data compute framework to access stored data at memory speed. The solution runs critical workloads in Global 2000 companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Barclay’s Bank, CERN, ESRI, Huawei, Intel, and Juniper, among others.

The ECS platform provides enterprise grade storage with exabyte scale that helps businesses to realize rapid and wide scale digital transformation of their data centers with faster time to market and improved TCO. Flexibility and efficiency in data handling and multi-protocol support allows ECS to break down data silos while accelerating analytics workloads.

This solution gives customers an alternative to DAS-based storage products by providing the benefits of ECS together with the performance enhancements from firm’s AEE software.

“Today’s high-performance applications demand real-time responses and our integration with Dell EMC ECS gives customers new levels of performance in big data analytic workloads,” said Haoyuan Li, CEO, Alluxio. “Alluxio gives Dell EMC ECS customers total flexibility to use any compute framework to access disparate storage systems on premise and in the cloud at memory speeds.“

Digital disruption is shaking up all types of organization in all industries. In a recent Dell Technologies study, almost half (48%) of global business leaders from mid-size to large enterprises confessed they don’t know what their industry will look like in three years. However, companies are struggling to evolve their data centers, with 69% saying they are being held back by too many traditional applications. They are challenged with reducing sprawl and spend, while bringing systems up-to-date.

As a modern storage platform, ECS is aimed at helping businesses transform their datacenters by realizing faster time to market and compelling cloud economics. With ECS, organizations can embrace cloud-native applications that directly enable digital transformation, and can also optimize their existing, traditional IT investments. 

It manages workloads for traditional and next-generation applications with storage efficiency, resiliency, and simplicity. With an active-active architecture, it provides strong consistency across geographies allowing for reliable geo-distributed multisite analytics.

HDFS support allows for compute to storage interface and independent scaling of storage and compute.

Deployable in clusters for petabyte and exabyte scalability, ECS is available as a turnkey appliance, as ECS software that can be deployed on industry-standard hardware or as a fully Dell EMC-managed ECS-as-a-Service.

The company proves its value in production scenarios where customers need to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time. It overcomes I/O limitations for running big data workloads that access remote storage systems and allows big data workloads to share data at memory speed for orders of magnitude higher performance in running jobs.