Helping Customers Adopt Hadoop without the Risk
Dell recognized early the impact Hadoop would have on our customers’ businesses. It was clear that Hadoop would lay the foundation for the modern data platform, allowing customers to focus on new game-changing insights and enhanced data-driven decision making. Yet we also understood that, as with any technology, there would be an adoption curve due to an expertise and skills gap.
This is where Dell wanted to level the playing field for customers, helping them overcome these obstacles. With this goal in mind, over five years ago Dell partnered with Cloudera, a company founded by some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley, to introduce the industry’s very first Hadoop reference architecture. The reference architecture taught customers how to build Hadoop from bare-metal hardware, providing guidance and know-how to streamline the architecture, design, planning and configuration of Hadoop environments.
This validated reference architecture allowed our customers to spend their time and resources on use cases and data, not the front-end work that must be done before they can get to the business value. From the beginning, Dell and Cloudera together focused on delivering the world’s fastest, easiest and most secure Apache Hadoop solution to help organizations overcome their big data challenges.
We’ve held this belief for as long as we’ve worked with Cloudera, and today we are still holding true to our core value—make Hadoop less complex for customers by providing flexible, validated architectures running Cloudera Enterprise.
Today, the Dell-Cloudera-Intel partnership is stronger than ever, as Dell releases its eighteenth and nineteenth reference architectures for running Cloudera software on Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors. These new validated solutions help organizations unleash the capabilities of the latest version of the Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH 5.9) on a certified architecture.
Dell helps organizations reduce the risk. Customers can leverage the expertise and infrastructure built into the Dell Cloudera Hadoop Solution, allowing them to focus on delivering deeper insights and enhanced data-driven decision-making.
When talking with Jim Ganthier, SVP Validated Solutions and HPC at Dell, he remarked, “Organizations around the world count on Dell, Cloudera and Intel to deliver leading-edge Hadoop solutions that simplify and accelerate the adoption of big data solutions and enable customers to capitalize more fully on the massive amounts of data they generate and capture every day. This is a partnership that is helping our mutual customers drive the digital transformation that will keep them competitive today and in the years to come.”
Tim Stevens, Cloudera VP for Business and Corporate Development has told us that, “At Cloudera, we have been excited about the Dell merger, which combined the strengths of two of our well-established technology partners. Together with Cloudera and Intel, Dell is uniquely positioned to deliver validated end-to-end Hadoop environments. We are proud that today there are five available Dell solutions certified on Cloudera Enterprise 5.9.”
The new Dell Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop Solutions offer customers choices that include validated configurations based on the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server and the Dell PowerEdge FX2 server. These configurations are part of a portfolio of end-to-end Hadoop solution offerings that bring together hardware, software, services and support components. These offerings enable organizations to deploy Hadoop environments faster and with far greater confidence than they could have were they to design their own solutions from the ground up.
Ron Kasabian, VP, GM Data Center Analytics & AI Solutions, Intel Corporation emphasizes the importance of the partnerships, “Working closely with Intel, Dell continues to expand the reach of its Hadoop solutions incorporating the Intel® Xeon E5 v4 processor family. The Dell portfolio now gives our mutual customers the option of deploying Hadoop environments that have been certified on the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server and the Dell PowerEdge FX2 server.”
For a closer look at Dell solutions incorporating Cloudera Hadoop, including innovative ETL Offload and QuickStart offerings, visit Dell.com/Hadoop or EMC.com/BigData.