Dell has introduced a new Big Data Retention application which can reduce the costs of retaining big data while helping to improve management for easy retrieval and analysis.
The new application is designed for organisations that leverage big data analytics to derive business value from their data
Big Data Retention application 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.
Customers can now 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.
Dell’s new application 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.
The RainStor database provides online data retention at a massive scale, with unlimited scalability and zero administration, the company said.
Big Data Retention application 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.
Dell’s new application can provide an average data compression ratio of up to 40:1, freeing up disk space approximately 97%. It also leverages the capabilities of the Dell Fluid Data architecture, which enables the extreme data volumes to be accessed, moved and leveraged.
The Big Data Retention application is added to the DX Object Storage Platform to help customers 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.
