Dell is introducing a new Big Data Retention solution that leverages RainStor software in order to significantly reduce the costs of retaining big data while helping SMBs improve management for easy retrieval and analysis.
The new Big Data retention solution is designed for SMBs that leverage big data analytics to derive business value from their data. The solution 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.
With this offering, Dell aims to expand its portfolio of Big Data capabilities across the spectrum of ingest, storage, management, warehousing, and analytics. SMBs can 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 Big Data retention solution 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, simplified data management, and scalability. The solution also includes Dell professional services to help SMB customers enhance their current big data environment or create a new one that can scale to company demands and data growth.
“Not only are the volumes of data growing, but so is its value to the organization,” says Darren Thomas, Dell Enterprise Storage’s vice president and general manager. “Being able to cost-effectively capture and store all of the relevant data makes it possible to gain insights that support innovation and business value. The key is having the right data management solution to fluidly move data, tier it, dedupe it, protect it, and archive it.”
The RainStor database provides online data retention at a massive scale, with unlimited scalability and little administration. It can be deployed on any combination of Dell servers and storage, on premise, or in a cloud configuration.
