EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support

EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native
Hadoop Support

Now Integrated with EMC Greenplum for One-Stop Enterprise Hadoop
Solution

News Summary:

* EMC Isilon’s OneFS 6.5 operating system natively integrates the
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) protocol and delivers the
industry’s first and only enterprise-proven Hadoop solution on a
scale-out NAS architecture.
* By natively integrating Hadoop into an enterprise-class scale-out
storage solution ( http://www.emc.com/bigdata ), EMC Isilon enables
customers to leverage end-to-end data protection including Snapshots,
Replication and Backup for their Hadoop Big Data.
* By combining EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with EMC Greenplum HD, EMC
reduces the complexities associated with Hadoop deployments and allows
enterprises to easily extract business value from unstructured data.
* EMC satisfies the requirements of business-critical enterprise
environments with the first end-to-end Hadoop solution combined with
services, training and certification, and customer support.

Full Story:

SEATTLE, WA – January 31, 2012 – EMC® Corporation
(http://www.emc.com/) (NYSE: EMC) today announced that EMC Isilon
scale-out NAS (http://www.isilon.com/) with HDFS, combined with EMC
Greenplum HD (http://www.greenplum.com/products/greenplum-hd), delivers
powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable and efficient
storage platform. This new 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,
ensuring a more seamless user experience. With this solution, EMC
eliminates CIOs’ need to spend valuable time investigating and
integrating products from multiple vendors.

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As the amount of unstructured data in the enterprise grows, companies
require an efficient and scalable storage system to help them manage
growth, and a powerful 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.

EMC Isilon scale-out NAS, now integrated with the Hadoop Distributed
File System (HDFS) protocol (http://www.isilon.com/hadoop), 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 a
comprehensive, enterprise-ready storage solution to protect, manage, and
share data in a Hadoop environment.

EMC Isilon is the first and only scale-out NAS storage platform that
integrates native HDFS as a protocol, providing all Hadoop users with
built-in access to enterprise data protection, industry leading storage
efficiency and accelerated data movement over a wide 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 builds on its innovation in data storage and analytics to deliver
the only end-to-end Hadoop solution, offering enterprises planning,
deployment, training and certificatio
n, 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 comprehensive roadmap to apply Big Data to their enterprises.
EMC services professionals can configure and integrate EMC Greenplum and
EMC 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 particular focus on
opportunities and challenges presented by Big Data.

By combining the scalability and simplicity of Isilon scale-out NAS
storage with the leading-edge analytics tools of Greenplum HD, EMC
delivers the first and only end-to-end Hadoop solution in the industry
that is ready for deployment in business critical enterprise IT
environments.

Supporting Quotes

Alex Younts, engineer, Purdue University

“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.”

Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, EMC Isilon

“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

“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.”

Availability

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

About Isilon, a division of EMC

Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out NAS. We
deliver powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to
manage their data, not their storage. Isilon’s products are simple to
install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional
enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is
added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in
the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about
their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there’s a
better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

About Greenplum, a division of EMC

Greenplum, a
division of EMC, is driving the future of Big Data
analytics with breakthrough products that harness the skills of data
science teams to help global organizations realize the full promise of
business agility and become data-driven, predictive enterprises. The
division's products include Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform,
Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, Greenplum Database, Greenplum
Analytics Lab, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus. They embody the power
of open systems, cloud computing, virtualization and social
collaboration, enabling global organizations to gain greater insight and
value from their data than ever before possible. Learn more at
www.greenplum.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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