EMC Isilon enables 2.5x capacity increase at reduced opex

NEW DELHI: EMC Corporation has unveiled the Data Lake Foundation and new features for Isilon that enable next generation use cases and increase capacity 2.5X , the company said in its statement.

EMC’s Data Lake Foundation consolidates data and applications while delivering analytics wherever needed to address these challenges. EMC Isilon innovations claims to help customers eliminate storage silos and provide simpler ways to store and manage data so they can focus efforts toward gaining insights and value from their data.

The new Isilon HD400 platform allows customers to scale their Data Lake Foundation to an unprecedented 50PB within a single cluster. This platform is ideal for customers who require a powerful, scalable, high-capacity platform to store between 2PB and 50PB. This capacity is ideal for Deep Archiving, Disaster Recovery and for building out a high-capacity Data Lake Foundation. Further, the extremely dense (3.2PB/ rack) HD400 will help reduce operational expenses including power, cooling and datacenter floor space expense by 50%.

In addition to the new HD400 platform node, the new features in the OneFS 7.2 operating system now supports integrated Hadoop management tools, HDFS 2.3 and HDFS 2.4 and enhanced security and authentication features for mission critical environments. Support for OpenStack Swift enables next gen workloads and adds simultaneous object, file and Hadoop access to the same in the Data Lake, eliminating islands of storage, reducing complexity and costs.

“With EMC Isilon innovations we are enabling organizations to consolidate their unstructured data and implement a highly efficient and flexible Data Lake Foundation for their enterprise that readily supports traditional and next-generation workloads and applications. These new Isilon products strengthen the enterprise-grade data lake foundation with significantly expanded storage capacity, support for new workloads, and enhanced data protection and security options,” said Amit Mehta, Director Sales, Isilon.