Enterprises of all sizes have realized the opportunities presented by better understanding and leveraging big data already within their organisation, but often find it a major obstacle in actually taking the first step towards implementing a solution. Fujitsu addresses this with PrimeFlex for Hadoop, a new dedicated solution developed to seamlessly enable customers to harness big data and start taking advantage of actionable analytics.
As organisations continue to digitalize their business processes, actionable analytics from existing and selected external data sources becomes more and more of a business critical factor. Fujitsu’s new PrimeFlex for Hadoop integrated system provides an easier than ever gateway to big data, and supports Fujitsu’s ongoing focus on helping customers to create more business-centric data centres.
Fujitsu is targeting finance, IT management and marketing business units as the functional areas within companies across all industries that are most likely to gain from process improvement through the use and exploitation of big data. Through integrating Datameer’s powerful analytics application, Fujitsu is enabling users to start tapping into big data without needing to involve IT staff in setting up complex and time-consuming processes.
The latest appliance to join the line-up of more than 20 workload-specific integrated systems under the new PrimeFlex brand, PrimeFlex for Hadoop is a powerful, scalable platform for big data which combines the convenience of pre-configured and pre-tested hardware with the economic advantages of open source software.
Fujitsu has developed PrimeFlex for Hadoop to simplify and tame big data. The powerful, dedicated all-in-one hardware cluster is designed to integrate with existing hardware infrastructures, introducing distributed parallel processing based on Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop. This is an open-source software framework which gathers, processes and analyzes data from various sources, then puts together and presents the big picture on how to act on the information gathered.
Fujitsu provides its customers with access to extensive, end-to-end strategic consulting capabilities in maximizing the effectiveness of Big Data, analytics and Hadoop. Furthermore, customers can benefit from Fujitsu integration and maintenance, plus system support and lifecycle management services. In order to simplify Big Data concepts and streamline project implementations, Fujitsu has created a European based big data centre of expertise that will help customers gain the full benefits of Big Data projects, and offers a range of PrimeFelx integrated systems to achieve this, including the In-Memory-Data Grid solution PrimeFlex for Terracotta BigMemory and the in-memory database solution PrimeFlex for SAP HANA.
Fujitsu offers different versions of PrimeFlex for Hadoop, such as versions optimised for storage-intensive tasks, as well as processing-intensive tasks. Solutions are packaged into complete systems with a single part number.
Harald Bernreuther, director: Global Infrastructure Solutions at Fujitsu. Says: “With the PrimeFlex for Hadoop Big Data appliance, Fujitsu is offering compelling new economic arguments for customers who have already realized that accessing Big Data presents them with huge business advantages, but were put off by the high cost of entry, and the difficulty in actually deploying data analytics to produce meaningful output. By creating a dedicated PrimeFlex integrated system for harnessing Big Data, as an enterprise data hub, we are making Big Data more accessible and easier than ever.”