HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
- 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
- New software-defined storage product, IsilonSD Edge, to offer
cost-efficient and consistent data management for remote office
infrastructures
- New next-generation EMC Isilon OneFS Operating System to
optimize unstructured data storage at the core of the Data
Lake
- New EMC Isilon CloudPools extend unstructured data storage to
public clouds delivering cloud-scale capacity, economics and
flexibility
Full release:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced 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 CloudPoolsTM — 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.
Delivering Efficient Software-Defined Edge
Storage
EMC IsilonSD Edge is a new
software-defined solution designed to simplify data management in
remote offices, or edge locations, in a cost-efficient way. Edge
locations have historically had challenges with cost, low capacity,
management complexity, conflicting formats and spotty governance.
This has impacted the productivity of information workers in these
locations, as well as IT's ability to view and manage data.
IsilonSD Edge is a 100% software-defined offering that runs on
commodity hardware. IsilonSD Edge will support VMware ESX and be
fully integrated with VMware vCenter for ease of management.
IsilonSD Edge sacrifices none of the capabilities of the OneFS
operating system and will support OneFS's data services and
protocols while scaling up to 36TB, seamlessly replicating data to
and distributing it from the core. IsilonSD Edge will be free for
non-production use and licensed per cluster for production use.
Optimizing the Core with the Next Generation of
OneFS
In addition to extending the Data
Lake to edge locations, EMC is also enhancing the Data Lake at the
core through the new, next-generation Isilon OneFS operating
system. This feature-rich offering is designed to improve
resiliency, simplify management, raise efficiency and provide
continuous operations for massive Data Lakes. A key enhancement is
full Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) support. OneFS has supported NDU
for minor code families, and now works across major code families
enhancing the resiliency of the Data Lake. The more resilient Data
Lake will help ensure no downtime for users and application
workloads during major upgrades.
The next generation of OneFS also features flexible software
upgrade rollback capabilities that will allow customers to restore
their application or end-user environments to a pre-upgrade state
as required. These capabilities offer infrastructure managers
granular choices to ensure a smooth user experience and continued
uptime for critical environments.
Extending to the Cloud with
CloudPools
In addition to solutions
focused on the core and edge, EMC is also offering EMC CloudPools,
a new software application for the Isilon product line that will
allow Isilon to easily extend to public, private and hybrid clouds.
Much of all data within the enterprise is "cold data" — data rarely
in use — that needs to be retained for regulatory and compliance
purposes. CloudPools will allow Isilon to tier data natively to
public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and
Virtustream without requiring a cloud gateway. CloudPools also
enables data center expansion to EMC Elastic Cloud
StorageTM (ECS) and Isilon as a private cloud. Isilon
extends its core namespace to the cloud to ensure access to data,
regardless of location. When the data is tiered to the cloud, it is
encrypted in transit and compressed to ensure security of
enterprise data at rest in the cloud. This allows organizations to
extend their Data Lakes to tap into cloud-scale capacity while
ensuring consistent and simplified access to and management of the
data.
Availability and Pricing
EMC
IsilonSD Edge, the next generation of EMC Isilon OneFS and EMC
Isilon CloudPools will be generally available in early 2016.
Pricing information will be made available upon general
availability.
EMC Customer Quotes
Andy Nallappan, CIO, Avago
Technologies
"The end-to-end toolset and
technology from EMC Isilon enables us to manage the lifecycle of
the data much more efficiently and cost effectively. In this age of
explosive data growth and a global workforce, storage technology
that spans the ever-expanding data center to grant access to our
data anytime, from anywhere is critical—and Isilon delivers that
with ease."
EMC Partner Quotes
Guru Pangal,
GM Hybrid Storage and Data Protection,
Microsoft
"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
"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."
Jed Bless, Senior Director of
Solutions Marketing, Brocade
"The
improved intelligence that comes from using our New IP Architecture
to replicate multiple IsilonSD Edge back to a central core,
resulting in an expanded, richer, data pool for analytics, could
provide us with a competitive edge."
Industry Analyst Quote
Scott Sinclair, Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group
"With the
world's unstructured data growing at an unprecedented rate, IT
organizations are under immense pressure to deliver more effective
strategies for reducing costs, simplifying management and finding
ways to consolidate enterprise data sources that can be mined for
business intelligence and value. EMC is responding to this shift as
one of the few vendors to champion Data Lake architectures and are
now rolling out solutions capable of more easily harnessing
unstructured data sources that until now have been trapped inside
silos at the enterprise edge."
EMC Executive Quote:
CJ
Desai, President Emerging Technologies Division,
EMC
"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. At the same time, the pressure is still on
to keep costs down. This trio of new EMC Isilon solutions is
designed to optimize every part of the data center, provide a
seamless user experience and create new economics as customers
continue to wrangle mountains of data and evolve their Big Data
strategies."
About EMC:
EMC Corporation is a
global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to
transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental
to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative
products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and
analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile,
trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC
can be found at www.EMC.com.
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