Nutanix complements VMware’s Project Serengeti, bolstering virtualized Hadoop with scale-out Fusion-io accelerated platform
SAN JOSE, CALIF. – August 28, 2012 – Nutanix (www.nutanix.com), the provider of SAN-Free data center solutions for VMware virtualized workloads, announces aturn-key platformthat employs VMware’s core virtualization technology and Fusion-io(NYSE:FIO) flash for cost effective virtualizedHadoopdeploymentsthat demand high IO performance and rapid capacity expansion without the need for a SAN orNAS. This news follows the Series C Funding announcement of 8/21/12.
"In order for Hadoop to thrive in the private cloud, it must borrow from the scale-out converged architectures prevalent in the public cloud -- virtualized, elastic, and with multi-tiered storage. To succeed, vendors must address this problem for the mass market with a software-defined approach delivered on off-the-shelf hardware" said Merv Adrian, a Vice President at Gartner.
“Nutanix Complete Cluster software-based storage capabilities enable a flexible deployment model ideal for running Hadoop workloads on VMware vSphere®virtualized workloads,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.
Software based scale-out storage delivers massively parallel performance.
Rack-busting performance, enterprise-grade data management:Nutanix’s network-less NFSdelivers up to 2000 MB/s of sequential throughput in a compact 2U 4-node cluster for Hadoopworkloads. A Terasort benchmark yields 250 MB/s in the same 2U cluster providing more than 200 percent better performance density than the nearest bare-metal rival. Throughput scales linearly by stacking more blocks.
"Hortonworks and Nutanix have incredible alignment in making Hadoop the next generation data platform for the enterprise," said Mitch Ferguson, VP Business Development at Hortonworks. "Running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on Nutanix Complete Cluster platform brings an extremely simplified scale-out enterprise-grade Big Data stack to the marketplace."
Nutanix has built a general purpose distributed filesystem that can bring enterprise-grade features to Hadoop and general purpose VMs, including snapshots, cloning, DR, data tiering, low-latency flash memory performance from Fusion-io, advanced HTML5 UI, and high-density x86 hardware for maximum rack utilization.
“In virtualized Hadoop environments, low-latency access to data is the key to successful deployment, and the Nutanix Complete Cluster successfully leverages the power of VMware and Fusion ioMemory to realize highly scalable compute performance, while also offering significant value through savings on capital and operational expenditures associated with the rapid scale-out of traditional storage arrays,” said Tyler Smith, Vice President of Alliances, Fusion-io.
Accelerate Hadoop projects with Nutanix’s turnkey scale-out appliance.
Encapsulate Hadoop for more cost effective and agile infrastructure. Bare metal implementations re-introduce operational challenges of having to deal with the expense, downtime, and underutilized CPU consequences of physical servers. Virtualizing Hadoopis the obvious answer, but such architectures have had to rely on SAN/NAS arrays that constrict HDFS performance. Nutanix offers the best of both worlds; a high performance turnkey SAN-Free server platform for virtualized Hadoop workloads. Nutanix solutions reduce complexity and speed time-to-value for sophisticated Hadoop projects. It also allows IT to benefit from all the valueof centralized VM management and provisioning (VMware vCenter™, VMware vCloud®and Project Serengeti™) while taking advantage of high performance server-side flash.
“By unifying commodity x86 servers, VMware vSphere, and ascale-out software based storage layer, Nutanix provides an optimized environment for virtualized Hadoop workloads,” said Dr. MohitAron, Co-Founder and CTO of Nutanix.
Harmonize all workloads onto a single tier of infrastructure
Balancing Hadoop, End-User Computing, and Server Virtualization Workloads onto Nutanix’s general purpose virtualization platform avoids the pitfalls of having to size and tailorinfrastructure gear for every application and use case, allowing IT lower costs by avoid heterogeneous hardware silos that only serve a single purpose.
Designed and fine-tuned to deliver local bus-speed storage performance with distributed redundancy, Nutanix allows customers to deploy homogeneous infrastructure for a diverse set of workloads. Hadoop specifically, designed for local storage, makes virtualizing it on centralized storage a challenge -- Nutanix’s Distributed File System (NDFS) resolves this dilemma by presenting high speed local server attached Flash to all vSphere hosts using intelligent data tiering and decentralized replication services to safeguard data.
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About Nutanix
Nutanix (www.nutanix.com) is the first company to offer a radically simple compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive external network storage (SAN or NAS). Founded in 2009 by a team that built scalable systems such as Google File System and enterprise-class systems such as Oracle Database/Exadata, Nutanix is based in San Jose, California, and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, and Blumberg Capital.
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