EMC intros Greenplum Big Data analytics appliance

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Storage solutions provider EMC Corporation introduced Greenplum Modular Data Computing Appliance (DCA), a Big Data analytics platform.

The EMC DCA allows enterprises to combine a shared-nothing MPP relational database with enterprise-class Apache Hadoop in a single, unified appliance to achieve structured and unstructured data coprocessing, claims the company in a release.

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In addition to mixing and matching Greenplum Database and Greenplum HD (Hadoop) modules, enterprises can also bring all their BI applications and ELT tools directly into the cluster, in the same DCA, through the use of new Greenplum Data Integration Accelerator modules. The result is a unified Big Data platform combining structured and unstructured data and applications in a single infrastructure that is also monitored, managed and supported by EMC.

The new DCA comes with four modules, which are Greenplum Database Module, Greenplum Database High Capacity Module, Greenplum HD Module, and Greenplum Data Integration Accelerator (DIA) Module.

EMC also claims that enterprises can start with a single, primary rack, which includes a single standard or high-capacity Greenplum Database quarter-rack module and room for three additional modules, as well as two master servers that are responsible for authentication, optimizing the query, balancing the workload among the different segment servers, managing the fault tolerant mechanism of data and other tasks for the cluster.

Enterprises may even expand the appliance in quarter-rack increments using Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD or Greenplum DIA modules in any order and amount, up to six racks total as their demand for processing capacity grows, adds the company.

This new Greenplum DCA also includes EMC data protection and disaster recovery solutions. It also integrates with EMC Data Domain deduplication and back-up technology.

The Greenplum DCA SAN Mirror Solution uses EMC Symmetrix VMAX, TimeFinder/Snap and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) for advanced storage and data replication between two sites in synchronous mode.

“Greenplum’s unique approach to Big Data analytics is resonating with a growing number of large enterprise customers in the financial, healthcare, and media industries who are planning for the future and have adopted our technology to make fundamental changes in their overall data infrastructure in order to tackle these Big Data issues.  Today’s announcement reflects our shift to a focus on building the analytics platform of the future, and we have had great success with that as enterprises adopt and validate our vision of data coprocessing,” Bill Cook, president and general manager of Greenplum, a division of EMC.