EMC Launches new Data Lake Foundation

EMC Corporation  has launched the Data Lake Foundation and new features for Isilon that enable next generation use cases and increase capacity 2.5X . EMC’s Data Lake Foundation consolidates data and applications while delivering analytics wherever needed.

EMC through the Data Lake Foundation provides enterprises with:

• Storage: Eliminates storage silos, simplifies management, and improves utilization
• Scalability: Built from scale-out architectures that are massively scalable and simple to manage
• Operational Flexibility:  Multi-protocol and next-generation access capabilities support traditional and emerging applications
• Enterprise Attributes: Protects data with efficient and resilient backup, disaster recovery and security options
• In-Place Big Data Analytics: Leverages shared storage and support for protocols such as HDFS to deliver cost-efficient, in-place analytics with faster time to results.

The new Isilon HD400 platform allows customers to scale their Data Lake Foundation to an unprecedented 50PB within a single cluster. This platform is ideal for customers who require a powerful, scalable, high-capacity platform to store between 2PB and 50PB. Further, the extremely dense (3.2PB/ rack) HD400 will help reduce operational expenses including power, cooling and datacenter floor space expense by 50%, EMC said.

In addition to the new HD400 platform node, the new features in the OneFS 7.2 operating system now supports integrated Hadoop management tools, HDFS 2.3 and HDFS 2.4 and enhanced security and authentication features for mission critical environments. Support for OpenStack Swift enables next gen workloads and adds simultaneous object, file and Hadoop access to the same in the Data Lake, eliminating islands of storage, reducing complexity and costs.

Amit Mehta, Director Sales, Isilon, EMC, said, “As the volume, variance and velocity of data have expanded dramatically, traditional techniques to store, manage and analyze information have proven to be too expensive and too slow to handle the massive data volumes modern enterprises produce. With EMC Isilon innovations we are enabling organizations to consolidate their unstructured data and implement a highly efficient and flexible Data Lake Foundation for their enterprise that readily supports traditional and next-generation workloads and applications.”