SGI has expanded its portfolio of Big Data solutions with the release of SGI InfiniteData Cluster, SGI ObjectStore and SGI LiveArc AE for SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway.
SGI’s new solutions enable business and government agencies to perform Big Data analytics with faster and greater insight, achieve the extreme capacity and scale needed for Big Data storage, making storage investments more cost effectively.
"As businesses tackle the rising volume, velocity, and variety of Big Data, they face a growing challenge – how to unlock value at greater speed, scale and efficiency," said Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI.
"SGI’s expertise in designing and building some of the world’s fastest supercomputers enables customers to fully optimize High Performance Computing for Big Data analytics to achieve business breakthroughs. As a Top 10 storage provider and with many years’ experience helping customers manage some of the world’s largest data environments cost efficiently, we are applying our expertise in Big Data storage to deliver solutions increasingly needed in today’s enterprise."
Factory-integrated with the Cloudera Hadoop distribution running on Red Hat Linux software and SGI Management Center, InfiniteData Cluster solutions arrive pre-racked, pre-configured, and pre-tested, saving 100s to 1,000s of IT man hours and providing business with a world-class analytics platform in days versus months.
"Today enterprise organizations need big data analytics solutions that are not just indiscriminant storage vaults, but are also innovative repositories of insightful data," said Tim Stevens, vice president, Business and Corporate Development, Cloudera.
"Cloudera’s Platform for Big Data, with Hadoop at its core, is a comprehensive data management platform. Combined with the SGI InfiniteData Cluster, joint customers gain a considerable competitive advantage as they address their big data challenges to gain value from all their data."
SGI’s new InfiniteData Cluster is part of a comprehensive suite of HPC solutions for Big Data analytics addressing two principle metrics – data analysis and time to value. If data relationships are sufficiently understood to allow parsing into chunks using Hadoop, and the need for results allows hours to days, InfiniteData Cluster is an ideal solution.
To accelerate business assessment and allow IT to gain immediate benefit, SGI is making an InfiniteData Cluster available online, pre-configured with RedHat Enterprise Linux and Cloudera Hadoop, for customers to upload their own data and explore Big Data analytics. SGI’s Hadoop Sandbox is targeted for availability at year end.
New SGI ObjectStore delivers extreme storage capacity and cloud scalability for Big Data. Integrating SGI’s OEM of Scality RING software with its innovative SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Server hardware, ObjectStore provides a proven, object-based, "scale-out" storage solution for petabyte environments. The ObjectStore system architecture delivers a shared storage pool supporting thousands to millions of users, with limitless file size and quantity, and performance rivaling block-based storage.
Coming to SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway, the integrated, active archive solution enabling enterprises to significantly lower the cost of high volume storage, SGI is introducing SGI LiveArc AE, a special "appliance edition" of SGI LiveArc software to be embedded in the Gateway before year end. Delivering intelligent management for active archives, LiveArc AE provides fast search, facilitates compliance, and helps achieve disaster recovery.
