As customers face the increasing deluge of big data driven by business
demands for greater analytics, Dell is introducing a new Big Data
Retention solution that can significantly reduce the costs of retaining
big data while helping to improve management for easy retrieval and
analysis.
Dell's new Big
Data retention solution is designed for organizations that leverage
big data analytics to derive business value from their data. The
solution integrates with existing analytics platforms as a frontend big
data repository for large datasets or a backend archive. It can also
serve as a standalone repository or as an analytics platform with Hadoop.
With this latest offering, Dell expands its portfolio of Big Data
capabilities across the spectrum of ingest, storage, management,
warehousing, and analytics. Customers can scale from efficient storage
and retention, into more complex analytics like the Dell Cloudera
management platform, Apache Hadoop Solutions based on Dell PowerEdge C-
and R-series servers, Force 10 networks, and Dell Crowbar deployment
toolkit.
Dell's Big Data retention solution combines Dell storage, including the
DX Object Storage Platform, and RainStor® database technology, to help
reduce the cost of retaining big data through data reduction, simplified
data management and near-perfect scalability, which can provide easy
access to the data by standard SQL BI/analytics tools. The solution also
includes Dell professional services to help customers enhance their
current big data environment or create a new one that can scale to
company demands and data growth.
Much of the anticipated massive data growth is tied to automated systems
that continuously create structured or semi-structured data that can be
mined by data analytic programs to drive new discoveries and save money.
The further adoption of big data analytics will ultimately place
enormous demands on IT to change the way data is stored and managed.
“Not only are the volumes of data growing – so is its value to the
organization,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager,
Dell Enterprise Storage. “Being able to cost-effectively capture and
store all of the relevant data makes it possible to gain insights that
support innovation and business value. The key is having the right data
management solution to fluidly move data, tier it, dedupe it, protect it
and archive it. To us, that means your data is fluid.”
Dell's Big Data retention solution can provide an average data
compression ratio of up to 40:1,(1) freeing up disk space approximately
97 percent. This greatly-reduced footprint can accelerate query access
for analytics. The solution leverages the capabilities of the Dell Fluid
Data architecture, which enables these extreme data volumes to be
efficiently accessed, moved and leveraged when and where needed.
The RainStor database provides online data retention at a massive scale,
with unlimited scalability and zero administration. It can be deployed
on any combination of Dell servers and storage, on premise or in a cloud
configuration. When paired with the Dell DX Object Storage platform, the
solution provides a single system for retaining structured,
semi-structured and unstructured data across an unlimited number of data
sources, formats and types, providing cost savings that can change the
economics of big data retention.
While available on other Dell storage platforms, when a Big Data
retention solution is added to the DX Object Storage Platform customers
can add capacity in amounts as small as 2TB, scaling up to petabytes and
to billions of objects without the set-up and management complexity and
costs of traditional file and block storage. Dell's Big Data retention
solution is currently available in the U.S.
“Dell’s best-in-class servers and storage are a perfect complement to
RainStor’s Big Data database,” said Ramon Chen, vice president of
product management at RainStor. “With RainStor’s ability to run on any
storage platform, customers can choose the combined solution that will
meet their business needs at the lowest total operating cost.”
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(1) Figure based on findings through RainStor internal testing.
