EMC enhances Data Lake Storage Infrastructure

EMC Corporation has launched the Data Lake Foundation and new features for Isilon that enable next-generation use cases and increase capacity 2.5X. With the unprecedented growth of unstructured data, customers are increasingly being challenged with cost-effectively managing and deriving value from the data present in different islands of storage. EMC’s Data Lake Foundation consolidates data and applications while delivering analytics, wherever needed, to address these challenges. EMC Isilon innovations are playing a pivotal role in helping customers eliminate storage silos and provide simpler ways to store and manage data so they can focus efforts toward gaining insights and value from their data.

Amit Mehta, Director – Sales, Isilon, 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. Many organizations are also challenged by the proliferation of inefficient storage silos across their enterprises that are difficult to manage and protect. 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. These new Isilon products strengthen the enterprise-grade data lake foundation with significantly expanded storage capacity, support for new workloads, and enhanced data protection and security options.”

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. This capacity is ideal for Deep Archiving, Disaster Recovery and for building out a high-capacity Data Lake Foundation. Further, the extremely dense (3.2PB/ rack) HD400 will help reduce operational expenses, including power, cooling and data center floor space expense by 50%.

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.