What is a Data Lake? Introduction to the Advantages of an EMC Data Lake

Bring data, applications, and analytics together to lower costs and unlock the value of your digital assets.

In the face of interconnected mobile devices, rich media, web content, and growth in traditional file workflows, organizations the world over are faced with an IT dilemma: how to manage the amount of unstructured data that is doubling in size every two years.

And for those growth-minded organizations looking to improve their business results, the dilemma takes on an added dimension—analytics. How can they achieve a flexible infrastructure that allows them to unlock the business value of their data and gain new insight?

The answer to the big data problem

The answer to this problem is a holistic approach that brings data, applications, and analytics together—in other words, a data lake. With this solution, data is ingested, catalogued, inventoried, and controlled, regardless of the source or destination.

But, to achieve a Data Lake, organizations first need to consolidate and eliminate their inefficient storage silos. This requires a foundation—a Data Lake Foundation—which provides the underlying data storage infrastructure that powers a Data Lake.

With a Data Lake Foundation, you can provide your customers a solution that will:

Eliminate storage silos to reduce costs and simplify storage managementProvide a flexible scale-out architecture for massive scalabilitySupport a wide range of traditional and next generation (3rd Platform) workloadsEnable cost-efficient, in-place big data analytics via support for protocols such as HDFSOffer efficient and resilient backup, disaster recovery, and security options

Introduction to the Advantages of an EMC Data Lake Foundation sponsored by EMC :

Tom Snyder

Regional Territory Manager

EMC – Isilon Scale-Out Division

Experienced professional dedicated to the application of information technology to solve business needs. Primary focus: understanding customer's business first; and utilizing my experience to develop technology solutions which will improve revenue, increase productivity, enhance efficiency, and provide return on investment. Past 12 months have focused on the evolution of the “Data Lake” concept and the use of analytics to leverage information to expand and/or create business opportunities.

Specialties: Scale-out solutions for Analytics, Information Management, storage, backup and recovery, archive, advanced networking (MPLS,IP), cloud computing and application support, storage and virtual applications.