Earlier this month marked the 1 year anniversary of Dell Technologies and the coming together of Dell and EMC. Looking back, it has truly been a great year with a lot of bright spots to reflect on. I am most excited about how we have been able to bring together two powerful product portfolios to create choice and value through unique solutions we now build for our customers. This can be seen across the company as our new portfolio drives increased opportunities to meet specific customer needs like creating more value add solutions for specific workloads. As a data analytics junkie, one that is near and dear to my heart is the recently released Dell Ready Bundle for Hortonworks with Isilon Shared Storage.
You might ask “Why is this so important”? First, this is a Ready Bundle and a part of the Ready Solutions family meaning you reduce your deployment risks and speed up your time in value. If you aren’t sure what Ready Solutions are then here is a Whitepaper from IDG. Secondly, this new Ready Bundle with Isilon extends 
flexibility for the user more than ever before. As a heritage Dell offering, the Dell Ready Bundles for Hadoop have been around for years but traditionally they have been designed on PowerEdge servers. When you needed to scale your environment you would need to scale both compute and storage together; not a bad thing for many customers and deployments of these Ready Bundles have been outstanding. Now however, with heritage EMC’s Isilon added to the Ready Solution cadre of technologies, we offer organization the choice to decouple storage from compute and scale independently these two distinct components while delivering world class data services that have earned Isilon the top spot on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Scale-Out File and Object storage. We generally find this is a great option for Hadoop deployments where capacity requirements are growing much more rapidly than processing requirements.
In addition to the increased choice and data services that you get with Isilon, you still enjoy all of the benefits of the other Ready Solutions for Hortonworks Hadoop. This solution has been tested and validated for Hortonworks HDP by both Dell and Hortonworks. Dell and Hortonworks
have continued to strengthen their partnership over the years and this is yet another example of how we have come together to provide a unique, integrated solution to meet customers’
needs. Both Dell and Hortonworks are excited about how this new Ready Bundle will help drive even more business outcomes with customers achieving success with Hadoop much more quickly. Jeff Schmitt, Hortonworks’ Sr. Director of Channels and Alliances had this to say about the Ready Bundle “The Ready Bundle for Hortonworks is yet another example of joint Dell and Hortonworks investment bringing increased value to customers. As HDP deployments continue to grow in scale, offering customers choice in their infrastructure deployments is critical. The Ready Bundle for Hortonworks provides a customer simplified deployment while allowing storage and compute to scale independently.”
This new Ready Bundle release is the epitome of the value that this merger has created. If you find yourself having to scale your Hadoop environment to meet capacity needs or are looking where to start on your Hadoop journey, the Dell Ready Bundle for Hortonworks Hadoop with Isilon is a great fit. Here is the Ready Bundle Solution Overview for you to learn more about this great solution.
