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
- 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."
- 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
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the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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[1] McKinsey & Company, "Big data: The next
frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity," May
2011.