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Mar 23, 2015

New EMC Federation Business Data Lake


EMC Federation members EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, VMware and VCE have today announced the Federation Business Data Lake.

The Federation Business Data Lake Solution makes it easy to deploy a Business Data Lake. Core products from the EMC Federation of Companies, EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware, provide the core functionality of the Federation Business Data Lake meeting the critical functional needs - Store, Analyze, Surface and Act. 

The Federation Business Data Lake is a fully engineered solution that can be rapidly and automatically provisioned, enabling IT organizations to lead the needs of the business. The analytics layer is completely virtualized with VMware running on Vblocks with predefined analytics use cases and automated provisioning and configuration. EMC Isilon provides the Data Lake Storage Foundation, delivering the ideal balance of capacity and performance.

The analytics layer is comprised of the Pivotal Big Data Suite, including PivotalHD, featuring the world’s leading SQL-on-Hadoop engine, HAWQ. Pivotal Big Data Suite provides enterprise-class SQL, which allows for seamless integration and interoperability with top analytics platforms such as SAS, Tableau and others, over data stored in Hadoop. EMC is also delivering two additional Business Data Lakes to enable integration with customer choice of Hadoop distribution including Cloudera and Hortonworks, along with any future Open Data Platform-based Hadoop distribution.

The Federation Business Data Lake will be offered in Directed Availability in April 2015 with General Availability in select countries.

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