• • Dell Big Data portfolio expands across storage, management and
analytics solutions
• Dell
storage supports big data analytics with RainStor software to help reduce data
volume and costs
• Professional services help customers develop a big data
infrastructure from the ground up
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.
The new Dell
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.
The 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.”
The Dell 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 the 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. The Dell 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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