Syncsort | Dell reference architecture to accelerate Hadoop ETL
Big Data integration software provider Syncsort Inc. is teaming up with Dell Inc. and Cloudera Inc. in a bid to make Hadoop easier for enterprises to get up and running. Syncsort and Dell have introduced a new reference architecture that will, among other things, help businesses improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and leverage advanced analytics by shifting data and workloads from overloaded enterprise data warehouses to Hadoop.
Dell and Syncsort’s reference architecture provides turnkey solutions that combine the key components of Big Data analytics environments, making them easier to deploy and scale. Central to the new reference architecture is the integration of Syncsort’s DMX-h Hadoop Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) software with Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub. The reference architecture makes it easy for firms to offload their ETL workloads into Hadoop, boosting performance and freeing up valuabel cycles in the enterprise data warehouse, Syncsort said.
The biggest advantage the reference architecture provides is reducing Hadoop deployment to mere weeks, the companies said. In addition, customers will be able to develop Hadoop ETL jobs within just a matter of hours, and become fully productive within days of deployment, said Armando Acosta, Hadoop Product Manager at Dell, in a blog post.
“With Syncsort’s DMX-h, users can begin developing Hadoop ETL jobs within hours, and the system can become fully productive within days by using a drag-and-drop interface rather than learning additional complex technologies,” Acosta wrote. “Adding to this convenience, the SILQ offload utility helps to obtain drilled-down, detailed information about each step within the data flow, including tables and data transformations. This can reduce expert analysis from 20-plus hours to less than 30 minutes.”
That’s important, because as anyone who’s familiar with Hadoop knows, extracting value from data can be a costly and time-consuming process. But the new reference architecture will lead to lower data transformation costs and provide operational efficiencies that lay a strong, cost-effective, secure and scalable foundation for managing data on an ongoing basis, Acosta said.
The reference architecture should appeal to enterprises that are looking to gain immediate value from their data without paying through the nose to do so, said George Gilbert, a Big Data and Analytics Analyst at Wikibon.
“Moving workloads from highly-tuned but expensive and performance-constrained data warehouses to Hadoop is an increasingly popular method for enterprises to realize immediate value from the open source Big Data framework,” Gilbert said. “In particular, cost savings achieved by moving data transformation workloads (the T in ETL), some of which execute in the Data Warehouse, to less-expensive Hadoop environments are then available for re-investment in other high-value Big Data analytics initiatives.”
Following the annoucement, Dell’s Acosta dropped by theCUBE for an interview with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, where he spoke about what led Dell to pursue its reference architecture.
“Our customers told us they want a reference architecture that’s actually defined on a use case,” Acosta said. “They wanted us to show them “here’s the first step you take, and here’s how you do it in the simplest way possible. So we’re showing them here’s how you do it will the Dell – Syncsort – Cloudera solution, so that you don’t have to do the designing, architecting, configuring. We’ve done all that hard work for you and now we have a plug-and-play solution.”
See more from Acosta and Syncsort President Josh Rogers in the video:
The Dell | Cloudera | Syncsort Data Warehouse Optimization – ETL Offload reference architecture will be available from next month.
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