EMC and Pivotal Introduce Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 

EMC Corporation and Pivotal today announced the Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0, offering a complete turn-key offering featuring compute, analytics and storage for customers building scale-out Data Lakes for predictive analytics.

Data Lakes are gaining momentum as an infinitely scalable repository for critical data generated by traditional and next-generation workloads. EMC's scale-out Data Lake is designed to be enterprise ready to help organizations derive immediate business value from Big Data.

Earlier this year, EMC and Pivotal announced the first incarnation of the Data Lake Hadoop Bundle, linking enterprise Hadoop and predictive analytics with enterprise scale-out storage. Available today, the Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 includes EMC's Data Computing Appliance (DCA), a high-performance big data computing appliance that drastically simplifies deployment and scaling of Hadoop and advanced analytics. DCA joins Isilon scale-out NAS, as well as Pivotal HD and Pivotal HAWQ, in this bundled offering—furthering the commitment of both EMC and Pivotal to deliver Hadoop for enterprise-class predictive analytics. A strategic addition to this bundle, DCA is optimized for big data workloads and provides the user with a streamlined experience, maximizing analytics performance and time to value.

The Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 is designed to help organizations accelerate the value of Hadoop Big Data initiatives in the enterprise while keeping acquisition and management costs lower than solutions assembled with disparate parts. The solution is comprised of a pre-tested, high performance Big Data analytic system featuring world-class EMC storage and advanced analytics on Hadoop through enterprise appliances, enabling a single, focused and easy to implement solution.

The Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 includes:

• Enterprise-class, HDFS-ready, scale-out Isilon NAS storage nodes
• Leading enterprise Pivotal HD (Hadoop)
• Pivotal HAWQ pre-configured and hardened on DCA for best-in-class advanced analytics on Hadoop
• Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 is generally available today.