New generation of Isilon scale-out NAS to support a Data Lake 2.0 Strategy that expands core Data Lake capabilities to enterprise edge and the cloud
EMC Corporation unveiled the next generation of its EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS Data Lake, which includes new products, features and capabilities that allow enterprises to scale easily to edge locations as well as to public clouds. The new products, — IsilonSD Edge, the next generation of Isilon OneFS and Isilon CloudPools — enhance the Data Lake by allowing unstructured data to be available not only within the core data center, but also at data center edge locations such as remote offices and archived in the cloud. Designed to offer a more efficient Data Lake, the new Isilon solutions consolidate multiple workloads and allow users to access and analyze data from all locations.
Three major trends are transforming the enterprise. First, enterprises are becoming more global with a distributed workforce. Second, the volume of unstructured data is growing rapidly and doubling every two years, increasing the need for managing data efficiently while also garnering value from it. Lastly, hybrid cloud has become the preeminent choice for customers to most efficiently and effectively run their data centers.
EMC’s Data Lake 2.0 strategy and new announcements today are at the heart of managing these challenges. Early Data Lake deployments were limited to pulling in only data sources available within — or in close proximity to — the core data center. Now there is an increasing need for the Data Lake 2.0 to expand and be able to manage unstructured data in a simple and consistent way within the core data center, at edge locations and in the cloud.
Amit Mehta, Country Manager, Isilon Storage Division at EMC India & SAARC, “Enterprises are managing more data and in more locations than ever before. The rapid growth of unstructured data in the data center core and at the enterprise edge is challenging organizations to both manage data growth and find new ways to tap highly distributed data stores for business intelligence and value. EMC IsilonSD Edge would enable the enterprises to extend the edge of the data lake and achieve some benefits of increased productivity for knowledge workers at the edge with a simple solution that offers end to end consistency, the storage needed for local access in a product that is easy to both license and deploy. The trio of new EMC Isilon solutions aims to evolve the current Big Data strategies into a cost effective, seamless and more efficient tool to achieve business objectives.”
Guru Pangal, GM Hybrid Storage and Data Protection, Microsoft, added, “We know that unstructured data is growing rapidly and enterprises are challenged to store and manage it on-premises. With EMC Isilon, enterprise customers can use EMC CloudPools to seamlessly tier their frozen data to Microsoft Azure without any disruption to users and applications. By leveraging the durability, scalability, high availability and trustworthiness of Microsoft Azure storage, EMC Isilon customers can lower the overall cost of their storage.”
Rodney Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, Virtustream maintained, “Customers deploying the new EMC Isilon CloudPools capability will now be able to seamlessly extend to the public cloud. We believe that the combination of Virtustream and EMC Isilon’s CloudPools ensure that enterprise customers can achieve their hybrid cloud goals. We are excited to extend our class leading service offerings to EMC’s Isilon customers as part of an overall Data Lake 2.0 strategy, and see opportunities for dramatic growth as customers shift focus to cloud services.”
