NetApp announces two new big data solns

DELHI, INDIA: Unified storage vendor NetApp announced two new big data solutions, based on the NetApp E-Series platform, for high performance computing (HPC) environment.

The new solutions are designed to serve the needs of bandwidth-intensive needs in concert with Lustre and Quantum StorNext parallel file systems.

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Brendon Howe, vice president, High Performance Computing, NetApp, said: "NetApp is serious about high-performance Computing. Our big data bandwidth solutions solve pressing needs in these key verticals and are tested and proven.  They provide a shorter time to results with increased productivity and lower risk and costs.”

With this announcement, NetApp adds to its portfolio of big data solutions designed to serve analytics, bandwidth and content repository requirements.

The NetApp HPC solution for Lustre is purpose-built to scale bandwidth and density with proven reliability to solve difficult research, modeling, and simulation problems.

The also eliminates data bottlenecks with 30GB/sec writes and reduces power, cooling and operational costs by maximizing disk drive performance in less rack space, claims the company in a release.

The NetApp Seismic Processing solution provides access to big data generated by seismic processing operations. This E-series platform supports 1.8PB in each 40U rack. The solution manages seismic processing operations with Quantum’s StorNext file system.