EMC: Big data era has arrived

EMC Corporation has announced new generations of its Isilon scale-out NAS hardware and software for managing the challenges of “big data.”

Isilon’s new hardware platform enables customers to choose from a range of drive configurations and combine them with a large, globally coherent cache and next-generation quad core processors to deliver optimum price-performance for accelerating big data access.

“Not only has the big data era arrived, but it is already impacting our lives in a variety of ways, from the pursuit of personalised medicine to real-time social networking,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing for Isilon. “The foundation of this transformational shift is scale-out storage, which delivers the simplicity, scale and ‘pay as you grow’ architecture big data requires, while also providing advanced enterprise functionality to ensure seamless integration with a broad range of mainstream IT environments.”

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