On Day 2 at EMC World 2015 (and frankly – the whole week), we were joined by friends from Cloudera, from Hortonworks, from Splunk, from Pivotal – and many many others in the Big Data Ecosystem.
“Big Data” is not just a buzzword, and yes, it needs to be an open ecosystem :-)
We’re seeing huge momentum around Isilon and HDFS Data Lake use cases, and it’s now a huge part of the Isilon business. We’re seeing the HDFS use increase nearly exponentially in the installed base as well. Ultimately, money talks – and customers are investing in Enterprise Data Lakes.
Isilon is not only “Scale-out NAS” but “Scale-out Enterprise Data Lake for all cold unstructured data”. It’s amazing to most, but Isilon is better in all ways (faster, lower cost, better performance) than traditional DAS HDFS clusters in many cases. It’s not just us that says it – so does IDC :-)
And that’s before you look at other factors like HDFS snapshots, replicas, multi-protocol use and more.
Oh, AND the fact that in all likelihood, you are also using it for NAS – so hey, it’s a two-fer :-)
There’s a purely internal story around Big Data that’s just too cool not to share. There are a team of EMC SEs (Midmarket Pathfinder team – the awesome Chris Ghiorzi, Josh Howell, Brandon Kaier, and Kurt Telep) who – because they were curious, built an awesome IoT big data demonstration that is real, live, and epic. It runs on Pivotal Web Services on AWS, HAWQ/Tableau/SpringXD and more in vCloud Air, and stores information using a variety of EMC platforms. Check this out:
And you can try it yourself – just pull out your phone and go to http://tilt.cfapps.io. If you want to share your GPS data, you need to opt in. They are taking forward in all sorts of cool ways – building homebrew Arduino IoT sensors, better visualizations and more.
But what about things that are other forms of big data – like the leader when it comes to machine data – Splunk? Answer = we are doing great things together!
We just published our EMC Solution guide and Reference Architecture for Splunk, which you can get easily below:
There’s also a great post from a field team in ANZ who deployed this solution (XtremIO hot/warm buckets, and Isilon as a cold bucket) for a customer, and then shared their experiences and lab here.
In a nutshell – why EMC and Splunk? This picture says it all:
Scale-Out Splunk Servers deserve to be paired with a flexible Scale-Out Hot/Warm Bucket storage architecture (XtremIO or ScaleIO) and a Scale-Out Cold Bucket storage architecture (Isilon).
Simple. Proven. Powerful Data Services. Performant.
Are you deploying Splunk, Cloudera, Hortonworks or Pivotal Big Data Suite on XtremIO, Isilon, ScaleIO? What have you found (good/bad/ugly) – share!
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