Symantec extends Cluster File System for Hadoop

BANGALORE, INDIA: Symantec Corp. announced an add-on solution for Symantec’s Cluster File System that enables customers to run Big Data analytics on their existing infrastructure.

Along with Hortonworks, the new Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop offering provides a scalable, resilient data management solution for handling Big Data workloads to help make Apache Hadoop ready for enterprise deployment, says a release.

With Symantec’s Cluster File System organizations can leverage existing infrastructure by scaling up to 16 PB of data including structured and unstructured data, avoid over provisioning on both storage and compute capacity, run analytics wherever the data sits, eliminating expensive data moves and make Hadoop highly available without a potential single point of failure or a performance bottleneck, adds the release.

The Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop is available now to existing Cluster File System customers at no additional charge. Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop supports Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.0 and Apache Hadoop 1.0.2.

“Customers can’t afford to let the challenges of implementing Big Data translate into management challenges within the infrastructure they’ve worked so hard to build,” said Don Angspatt, vice president of product management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec Corp. “Our Enterprise Solution for Hadoop helps connect Hadoop’s business analytics to the existing storage environment while addressing key challenges of server sprawl and high availability for critical applications. It’s now entirely possible to get the Big Data solution you want from the infrastructure you’ve got.”