In this slidecast, Richard Treadway and Rich Seger from NetApp discuss the company's storage solutions for Big Data and HPC. The company's HPC solutions for Lustre support massive performance and storage density without sacrificing efficiency.

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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