Enhanced Data Protection and Simplified Management
Capabilities Accelerate Big Data Innovation on E-Series
Platform
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-June 13, 2012-Organizations across a wide
range of industries are dealing with the realities that big
data presents. Machine- and user-generated data growth is
exploding in size and expected to increase
at a rate of 40% year over year[1]. Because
organizations must be able to quickly and efficiently turn
this data into valuable information to drive smarter
business decisions, they require a storage solution that
delivers continuous data availability for optimal
performance levels and simplified management.
To address these customer requirements, NetApp (NASDAQ:
NTAP) is now shipping Dynamic Disk Pools, a powerful new
data protection technology that improves overall system
performance and is available on big
data solutions built on the NetApp E-Series platform.
Additionally, NetApp today also announced that Whamcloud's
Chroma Enterprise management software is now available with
the NetApp®
High-Performance Computing Solution for Lustre to help
customers reduce management complexities.
New Technology Enables Continuous Availability, Improves
Performance
Dynamic Disk Pools is an innovative new technology that
administers dynamic reconstructions of failed drives,
enabling customers to maintain data availability by
restoring a system to optimal performance up to eight times
faster than with traditional RAID architectures. Dynamic
Disk Pools also decrease the performance impact of a failed
drive by up to 60%. This allows customers to maintain the
required performance levels during drive failures, which
helps lower overall storage system costs and enables them
to more quickly analyze data to speed time to results.
"Technologies like NetApp Dynamic Disk Pools would
help the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility deliver
consistent, reliable performance even in the face of disk
failures," said Dave Dillow, advanced systems architect for
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the largest science and
energy national laboratory in the U.S. Department of Energy
system. "At the scale and component counts of our computing
systems, gracefully handling these failures is fundamental
to our mission goals. Our early testing of NetApp's
technology has been very positive, and we look forward to
seeing it in the market."
Whamcloud Partnership Simplifies Lustre Management
To help customers simplify overall management of their
Lustre environments and deal with the complexities related
to deployment and management, NetApp has partnered with
Whamcloud to incorporate its Lustre Software Manager
powered by Chroma as part of the NetApp High-Performance
Computing Solution for Lustre.
The new central management system provides customers with a
unified view of their Lustre storage environment. In
addition to simplifying overall management, it also enables
customers to simplify several tasks that are oftentimes
complex and time consuming such as installation,
configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and fault
diagnosis. This allows customers to maximize the
performance of their storage environment and reduce the
costs associated with managing high-performance computing
storage.
"High-performance computing applications are only getting
larger and more complex, and, as a result, customers are
looking for ways to simplify their environments," said
Brent Gorda, chief executive officer, Whamcloud. "Combining
Chroma with the NetApp solution provides customers with a
truly industry-leading storage solution optimized for
Lustre environments and delivers unique management
capabilities that offer new levels of simplicity. Now
customers can spend less time managing their Lustre
environment and more time analyzing data to achieve
success."
The enhanced NetApp High-Performance Computing Solution for
Lustre bolsters NetApp's portfolio of big data solutions on
its E-Series platform. NetApp big data solutions are built
on NetApp E-Series and Data ONTAP® platforms to efficiently
process, analyze, manage, and access data at scale to meet
customers' analytics, bandwidth, and content needs
across a diverse number of industries, including oil and
gas, financial services, media and entertainment,
high-performance computing, and public sector. Customers
can spark innovation, make better decisions, and drive
successful business outcomes at the speed of today's
business with NetApp big data solutions.
Separately today, NetApp and Hortonworks entered a
strategic partnership to develop and pretest joint Apache
Hadoop solutions using Hortonworks Data Platform to help
customers simplify access to their data and gain deeper
business insight to make the right decisions faster. NetApp
also unveiled the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop Rack to
provide customers with a ready-to-deploy enterprise Hadoop
solution. Learn more about how your business can take
advantage of big data analytics with enterprise-ready
Apache Hadoop solutions from NetApp and Hortonworks by
reading the separate press release here.
Supporting Quotes
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Addison Snell, chief executive officer, Intersect360
Research
"Our research into big data applications has shown
not only the rapid growth in storage requirements, but
more specifically a need for vendors who can balance
performance requirements, reliability, and simplicity.
Based on our own studies, three-quarters of respondents
spanning commercial, government, and academia all plan to
invest in new technologies for big data with storage
solutions optimized for their environments at the top of
the list."
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Rich Clifton, senior vice president, Solutions and
Integrations Group, NetApp
"The information and data that surround us are continuing
to grow at incredible rates. Customers across various
vertical markets have unique storage requirements to help
them leverage this data to drive successful business
outcomes. By providing a wide range of big data-focused
solutions across our portfolio, including those built on
the E-Series platform, NetApp is helping customers more
effectively and efficiently process, analyze, manage, and
access their data. Today's announcement is further proof
of NetApp's commitment to continued innovation to provide
customers with the right solutions and technologies to
address their specific big data needs."
Pricing and Availability
Dynamic Disk Pools technology is already shipping on all
big data solutions based on E-Series, which are available
from NetApp sales and channel partners. The enhanced NetApp
High-Performance Computing Solution for Lustre is available
today from NetApp sales and channel partners. Pricing is
available from NetApp direct sales and channel partners.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management
solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and
deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's
passion for helping companies around the world go further,
faster at www.netapp.com.
Press Contact:
Ryan Lowry
NetApp
(408) 822-7544
ryan.lowry@netapp.com
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McKinsey & Company, "Big data: The next frontier for
innovation, competition, and productivity," May 2011.
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