1. NetApp:
Big Data and HPC
Richard Treadway
Director, NetApp Big Data Marketing
Rich Seger
Director, NetApp Vertical Solutions
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2. Data Growth Impact on Business
Complexity
“Big Data” refers to datasets whose size is
beyond the ability of typical tools to capture,
store, manage and analyze
Speed Volume
Information Becomes
a Propellant to Business
Business Velocity
Inflection
Point Data Becomes a
Burden to IT Infrastructure
2010 2020
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3. NetApp’s Approach to Big Data
Insight from extremely
large datasets
Big
Data
Secure boundless Performance for data
data storage intensive workloads
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4. NetApp Big Data Strategy
 Best of breed storage for Big Data
Open
Applications
Best-of-Breed
 Create preference through deep
Choice integration and value add
– NVA
 Build on open standards with best-
in-class partnerships
 Validate with Ecosystem Leaders
– Complete server, network and storage
“Racks”
– Delivered via trusted high-value partners
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5. NetApp Storage Portfolio
Data ONTAP 8: E-Series:
Revolutionizing storage with Performance-optimized
an agile data infrastructure for dedicated workloads
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6. NetApp E-Series
Dedicated Infrastructure
• Application-specific or workload-specific
• Optimized for performance
and density
• Storage as a dedicated resource
• Data management in the application layer
Example Workloads
• High performance computing
• Research & analysis
• Simulation & modeling
• Seismic processing
• Business Analytics
• Multi-stream media workflows
• Digital video ingest
• Long-term retention/large-scale archive
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7. NetApp E-Series Updates
What’s New
 NetApp SANtricity Software Update
E5400
 New SSD cache improves performance and enables
intelligent storage tiering
 Additional mirroring, copy service techniques, and
dynamic disk pools help secure data
 New multiple interface support for E5400 systems,
including 10Gb/s iSCSI and 6Gb/s SAS networks
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8. Big Data: Bandwidth Portfolio
HPC: Lustre & Seismic Video Surveillance Storage
Massively parallel
High bandwidth &
distributed file density supporting
system for large scale hundreds or thousands
cluster computing and of HD cameras
O&G Seismic
Processing
Media Content Management Full Motion Video
High ingest & play-out Scalable density and
rates with support for performance to ingest
media and and simultaneously
entertainment analyze UAV and
workflows satellite video data
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9. New HPC Solution: HPS Rack
What’s New
 Built on NetApp E-Series
NetApp E-Series
 Prepackaged and Configured HPC Storage Solution
 Includes preconfigured servers, management and
monitoring software, and the open-source Lustre
parallel file system
 Integrated with Terascala Lustrestack
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10. HPC & Big Data
 Performance to meet the needs
of the world’s fastest
Supercomputers
– Lawrence Livermore National
Labs Sequoia Supercomputer
powered by NetApp E-Series
and Lustre
 NetApp Storage Solutions are
addressing the worlds most
difficult data challenges
 As Big Data becomes more
commercially driven, having an
open platform provides more
flexibility and choice for long-
term success
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