This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.
IBM Spectrum Scale Introduction
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This paper outlines the features available today in Spectrum Scale that organizations can use to manage file data. This functionality includes core Spectrum Scale concepts such as striped data storage, cluster configuration options such as direct storage access and network-based block I/O, storage automation technologies such as information lifecycle management (ILM) tools, and more.
Big Data Analytics: Building A Strong Foundation
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Big data isn’t about technology; it’s about business outcomes and performance. Therefore, it’s essential that you have a reasonable assurance that your business needs and demands will be met— before investing your first dime. The logical starting point for any new initiative should stem from a set of business needs, questions or opportunities that have measurable results, such as improved customer satisfaction, increased profit margins or faster decision making.
Platform Computing of IBM
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IBM® Platform ComputingTM cluster, grid and high-performance computing (HPC) cloud management software can help transform your environment to deliver results better, faster and at less expense. IBM Platform Computing products are designed to save money by making an organization’s existing infrastructure work better.
Network Attached Storage: EMC Isilon
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EMC® Isilon® scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is a simple and scalable platform to build a scale-out data lake and persist enterprise files of all sizes that scale from terabytes to petabytes in a single cluster. It enables you to consolidate storage silos, improve storage utilization, reduce costs, while providing you a future proofed platform to run today and tomorrow’s workloads.
Cask Hydrator: Self Service Data Lakes on Hadoop
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The Cask Hydrator empowers organizations to blend, transform, and analyze data across multiple sources to create an on-demand analytical view across key customer interactions. This provides powerful insights into buyers, brand performance, products, and services.
Cloud Native Data Warehouse
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Snowflake eliminates the data warehouse and infrastructure overhead that has traditionally consumed time and resources.That frees resources to focus on getting insight from data and driving business value.
The Elastic Data Warehouses
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Data and the way that data is used have changed, but data warehousing has not. Today’s premises-based data warehouses are based on technology that is, at its core, two decades old. To meet the demands and opportunities of today, data warehouses have to fundamentally change.
EMC IsilonSD Edge: Software-Defined Scale-Out NAS
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The EMC IsilonSD product family combines the power of Isilon scale-out NAS with the economy of software-defined storage. IsilonSD Edge is purpose built to address the needs associated with growing unstructured data in enterprise edge location including remote and branch offices.
Enabling Value for Converged Commercial HPC and Big Data Infrastructures through Lustre*
September 15, 2015 by Leave a Comment
A number of industries rely on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to process massive amounts of data. As these same organizations explore the value of Big Data analytics based on Hadoop, they are realizing the value of converging Hadoop and HPC onto the same cluster rather than scaling out an entirely new Hadoop infrastructure.
