EMC Announces Expanding its Portfolio to Support the Data Lake Foundation

 

EMC announced new products and solutions to support the Data Lake Foundation—the storage infrastructure that supports the Business Data Lake solution, which brings together data and applications while providing analytics where needed.

“When we talk to customers, we always hear about unprecedented data growth and the challenge of managing islands of storage. Over the past year, we've shared our Data Lake Foundation strategy, and we've been delivering products like EMC Isilon and EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) to help eliminate storage silos and provide simpler ways to store and manage data so so customers can focus their efforts on gaining insight and value from their data,” explained Sam Grocott, senior vice president, Emerging Technology at EMC Corporation.  

EMC points out that last year it doubled its performance ratings with the new Isilon S210 platform and that it now anticipates a two-and-a-half-fold increase in capacity with the new Isilon HD400 platform, which allows customers to scale their Data Lake Foundation, reaching an unprecedented 50 PB in a single cluster. “It is ideal for customers who need a powerful, scalable, high-capacity platform to store between 2PB and 50PB. This capacity is ideal for archiving, disaster recovery, and building a high-capacity Data Lake Foundation. In addition, the extremely dense HD400 (3.2 PB/rack) will help reduce operating costs by 50%, which includes energy, cooling and datacenter footprint.” 

In addition to the new array, the company also announced new features to allow customers to get good insights from the data in the Data Lake. The new OneFS 7.2 operating system will support the latest and greatest versions of the Hadoop protocols, including HDFS 2.3 and HDFS 2.4, providing useful insights faster. Also new is support for OpenStack Swift to handle both file and object – the fastest growing unstructured data types. 

What the Data Lake Foundation brings to the enterprise:

• Efficient Storage: Eliminates storage silos, simplifies management and improves utilization;

• Massive Scalability: Built on massively scalable and simple-to-manage scale-out architectures;

• Greater operational flexibility: Next-generation multi-protocol and access capabilities support traditional and emerging applications;

• Enterprise Attributes: Protect data with efficient and flexible security, backup and disaster recovery options;

• Analytics for on-premises big data: Utilizes shared storage and supports protocols such as HDFS to deliver on-premises analytics with lower cost and faster results.