FlexPod Select with Hadoop delivers enterprise class Hadoop with validated, pre-configured components for fast deployment, higher reliability and smoother integration with existing applications and infrastructure.  These technical reference architectures optimize storage, networking, and servers with Cloudera and Hortonworks distributions of Hadoop. Leverage FlexPod Select with Hadoop to help store, manage, process and perform advanced analytics on your multi-structured data.   Tuning parameters, optimization techniques among other Hadoop cluster guidelines  are provided.

Interested in running a Hadoop proof of concept on enterprise-class storage? Download this solutions guide to get a technical overview on building Hadoop on NetApp E-series storage. NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop delivers big analytics with preengineered, compatible, and supported solutions based on high-quality storage platforms so you reduce the cost, schedule, and risk of do-it-yourself systems and relieving the skills gap most organizations have with Hadoop. See how on going operational and maintenance costs can be reduced with a high available and scalable Hadoop solution.

Advanced analytics strategies yield the greatest benefits in terms of improving patient and business outcomes when applied across the entire healthcare ecosystem. But the challenge of collaborating across organizational boundaries in order to share information and insights is daunting to many stakeholders. In this worldwide survey of 555 healthcare providers, payers and life sciences organizations, you will learn the importance of implementing collaborative analytics strategies that: Manage, integrate and interpret data generated at all stages of the healthcare value chain Achieve the right balance of skills in order to translate data into actionable insights Focus on executive sponsorship and enterprise-wide adoption with metrics to measure and track success Position yourself to harness data, create and share insights, make informed decisions, and improve the performance of the entire healthcare ecosystem in which you operate.

Whether in high-performance computing, Big Data or analytics, information technology has become an essential tool in today’s hyper-competitive business landscape. Organizations are increasingly being challenged to do more with less and this is fundamentally impacting the way that IT infrastructure is deployed and managed. In this short e-book, learn the top ten ways that IBM Platform Computing customers are using technologies like IBM Platform LSF and IBM Platform Symphony to help obtain results faster, share resources more efficiently, and improve the overall cost-effectiveness of their global IT infrastructure.

In today’s stringent financial services regulatory environment with exponential growth of data and dynamic business requirements, Risk Analytics has become integral to businesses. IBM Algorithmics provides very sophisticated analyses for a wide range of economic scenarios that better quantify risk for multiple departments within a firm, or across the enterprise. With Algorithmics, firms have a better handle on their financial exposure and credit risks before they finalize real-time transactions. But this requires the performance and agility of a scalable infrastructure; driving up IT risk and complexity. The IBM Application Ready Solution for Algorithmics provides an agile, reliable and high-performance infrastructure to deliver trusted risk insights for sustained growth and profitability. This integrated offering with a validated reference architecture delivers the right risk insights at the right time while lowering the total cost of ownership.

Whether in high-performance computing, Big Data or analytics, information technology has become an essential tool in today’s hyper-competitive business landscape. Organizations are increasingly being challenged to do more with less and this is fundamentally impacting the way that IT infrastructure is deployed and managed. In this short e-book, learn the top ten ways that IBM Platform Computing customers are using technologies like IBM Platform LSF and IBM Platform Symphony to help obtain results faster, share resources more efficiently, and improve the overall cost-effectiveness of their global IT infrastructure.

IBM Platform Symphony - accelerate big data analytics – This demonstration will highlight the benefits and features of IBM Platform Symphony to accelerate big data analytics by maximizing distributed system performance, fully utilizing computing resources and effectively harnessing the power of Hadoop.

Every day, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data and businesses are realizing tangible results from investments in big data analytics. IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) offers an enterprise class alternative to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for building big data platforms and provides a range of enterprise-class data management features. Spectrum Scale can be deployed independently or with IBM’s big data platform, consisting of IBM InfoSphere® BigInsights™ and IBM Platform™ Symphony. This document describes best practices for deploying Spectrum Scale in such environments to help ensure optimal performance and reliability.

According to our global study of more than 800 cloud decision makers and users are becoming increasingly focused on the business value cloud provides. Cloud is integral to mobile, social and analytics initiatives – and the big data management challenge that often comes with them and it helps power the entire suite of game-changing technologies. Enterprises can aim higher when these deployments are riding on the cloud. Mobile, analytics and social implementations can be bigger, bolder and drive greater impact when backed by scalable infrastructure. In addition to scale, cloud can provide integration, gluing the individual technologies into more cohesive solutions. Learn how companies are gaining a competitive advanatge with cloud computing.

There is a lot of hype around the potential of big data and organizations are hoping to achieve new innovations in products and services with big data and analytics driving more concrete insights about their customers and their own business operations. To meet these challenges, IBM has introduced IBM® Spectrum Scale™. The new IBM Spectrum Scale storage platform has grown from GPFS, which entered the market in 1998. Clearly, IBM has put significant development into developing this mature platform. Spectrum Scale addresses the key requirements of big data storage - extreme scalability for growth, reduced overhead of data movement, easy accessibility , geographic location independence and advanced storage functionality. Read the paper to learn more!

6 criteria for evaluating a high-performance cloud services providers Engineering, scientific, analytics, big data and research workloads place extraordinary demands on technical and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Supporting these workloads can be especially challenging for organizations that have unpredictable spikes in resource demand, or need access to additional compute or storage resources for a project or to support a growing business. Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) enables organizations to deliver HPC services in the most efficient way possible, optimizing resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. SDI is the foundation for a fully integrated environment, optimizing compute, storage and networking infrastructure to quickly adapt to changing business requirements, and dynamically managing workloads and data, transforming a s

Building applications for handling big data requires laser-like focus on solutions that allow you to deliver scalable, reliable and flexible infrastructure for fast-growing analytics environments. This paper provides 6 best practices for selecting the “right” infrastructure—one that is optimized for performance, flexibility and long-term value.

The impact of the 2008 financial crisis affects not only Sell Side firms - the focus of discussions - but Buy Side and Insurance firms. Dodd Frank Act targets all systemically important firms. This study conducted in partnership with Waters Technology, an Incisive Media publication, focuses these firms. The report finds that they are facing intense pressure on multiple fronts including stricter liquidity and solvency risk regulations, and changing market conditions. Like Sell Side firms, they require more innovative business models and analytics to meet these challenges and to deliver growth and performance.

As one of the most exciting and widely adopted open-source projects, Apache Spark in-memory clusters are driving new opportunities for application development as well as increased intake of IT infrastructure. Apache Spark is now the most active Apache project, with more than 600 contributions being made in the last 12 months by more than 200 organizations. A new survey conducted by Databricks—of 1,417 IT professionals working with Apache Spark finds that high-performance analytics applications that can work with big data are driving a large proportion of that demand. Apache Spark is now being used to aggregate multiple types of data in-memory versus only pulling data from Hadoop. For solution providers, the Apache Spark technology stack is a significant player because it’s one of the core technologies used to modernize data warehouses, a huge segment of the IT industry that accounts for multiple billions in revenue. Spark holds much promise for the future—with data lakes—a storage repo

Read this new IDC Report about how today's enterprise datacenters are dealing with new challenges that are far more demanding than ever before. Foremost is the exponential growth of data, most of it unstructured data. Big data and analytics implementations are also quickly becoming a strategic priority in many enterprises, demanding online access to more data, which is retained for longer periods of time. Legacy storage solutions with fixed design characteristics and a cost structure that doesn't scale are proving to be ill-suited for these new needs. This Technology Spotlight examines the issues that are driving organizations to replace older archive and backup-and-restore systems with business continuity and always-available solutions that can scale to handle extreme data growth while leveraging a cloudbased pricing model. The report also looks at the role of Storiant and its long-term storage services solution in the strategically important long-term storage market.

The new Ryft ONE platform is a scalable 1U device that addresses a major need in the fast-growing market for advanced analytics — avoiding I/O bottlenecks that can seriously impede analytics performance on today's hyperscale cluster systems. The Ryft ONE platform is designed for easy integration into existing cluster and other server environments, where it functions as a dedicated, high-performance analytics engine. IDC believes that the new Ryft ONE platform is well positioned to exploit the rapid growth we predict for the high-performance data analysis market.

This paper explores the top seven must-have features in a Real-Time Streaming Analytics (RTSA) platform in order to help you choose a platform that meets the needs of your organization.

This white paper explores strategies to leverage the steady flow of new, advanced real-time streaming data analytics (RTSA) application development technologies. It defines a thoughtful approach to capitalize on the window of opportunity to benefit from the power of real-time decision making now, and still be able to move to new and emerging technologies as they become enterprise ready.

Streaming analytics platforms provide businesses a method for extracting strategic value from data-in-motion in a manner similar to how traditional analytics tools operate on data-at rest. Instead of historical analysis, the goal with streaming analytics is to enable near real-time decision making by letting companies inspect, correlate and analyze data even as it flows into applications and databases from numerous different sources. Streaming analytics allows companies to do event processing against massive volumes of data streaming into the enterprise at high velocity.

In this Guide you will learn how predictive analytics helps your organization predict with confidence what will happen next so that you can make smarter decisions and improve business outcomes. It is important to adopt a predictive analytics solution that meets the specific needs of different users and skill sets from beginners, to experienced analysts, to data scientists.

A Data Lake can meet the storage needs of your Modern Data Center. Check out the Top 10 Reasons your organization should adopt scale-out data lake storage for Hadoop Analytics on EMC Isilon.

Every day, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data and businesses are realizing tangible results from investments in big data analytics. IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) offers an enterprise class alternative to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for building big data platforms and provides a range of enterprise-class data management features. Spectrum Scale can be deployed independently or with IBM’s big data platform, consisting of IBM InfoSphere® BigInsights™ and IBM Platform™ Symphony. This document describes best practices for deploying Spectrum Scale in such environments to help ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Join Gartner, Inc. and IBM Platform Computing for an informative webinar where you will learn how to combine best of breed analytic solutions to provide a low latency, shared big data infrastructure. This helps government IT departments make faster decisions by analyzing massive amounts of data, improving security, detecting fraud, enabling faster decisions and saving cost by optimizing and sharing your existing infrastructure.

To quickly and economically meet new and peak demands, Platform LSF (SaaS) and Platform Symphony (SaaS) workload management as well as Elastic Storage on Cloud data management software can be delivered as a service, complete with SoftLayer cloud infrastructure and 24x7 support for technical computing and service-oriented workloads. Watch this demonstration to learn how the IBM Platform Computing Cloud Service can be used to simplify and accelerate financial risk management using IBM Algorithmics.

In the age of "big data," it's essential for any organization to know how to analyze and manage their ever increasing stores of information. Packed with everything you need to know about Hadoop analytics, this handy guide provides you with a solid understanding of the critical big data concepts and trends, and suggests ways for you to revolutionize your business operations through the implementation of cost-effective, high performance Hadoop technology.