IBM Data Engine for Analytics – Power Systems Edition Release 2

IBM Data Engine for Analytics – Power Systems Edition Release 2 offers new preload options and Ethernet and IB switch options

It now offers IBM Open Platform with Apache Hadoop and IBM BigInsights Version 4 as preload options.

New 40GBE and IB switch options are also provided, supporting cost-effective, high-bandwidth options to derive insight from data at the speed of your business.

Power Systems offers a range of solutions for big data, from entry level for dedicated Hadoop infrastructures with the IBM Solution for Hadoop – Power Systems Edition to enterprise solutions with the IBM Data Engine for Analytics – Power Systems Edition.

IBM Data Engine for Analytics is for clients looking for an enterprise, turn-key solution capable of hosting multiple instances of Hadoop or Spark along with traditional data analytics workloads. It is a customized big data and analytics infrastructure solution with integrated software that is easy to deploy for fast time to value. It enables flexible and adjustable storage and compute nodes to align the infrastructure with specific line-of-business needs. It also incorporates efficient design that exploits the capabilities of IBM POWER8 technology to reduce the amount of infrastructure needed for big data and analytics workloads.

IBM Data Engine for Analytics includes the IBM Elastic Storage Server, a building block for big data (also available separately).

New for IBM Data Engine for Analytics
IBM Open Platform with Apache Hadoop is an IBM supported distribution that includes the open source components that are aligned with the Open Data Platform consortium. This includes core Apache Hadoop components along with Apache Ambari for ease of deployment and management. In addition, this distribution includes Apache Spark, which provides extremely fast in-memory analytics. This distribution will now be available as optional preloaded software for IBM Data Engine for Analytics.

BigInsights Version 4 offers a selection of value-added services that provide significant enhancements beyond the capabilities of the open source stack:

• BigInsights Enterprise Management delivers a high-performance, optimized MapReduce engine, secure multi-tenant support, and an optimized, resilient HDFS-compatible file system.
• BigInsights Analyst supports data center modernization with capabilities to run massively parallel SQL queries directly on the Hadoop cluster, including federation with external data sources, and to perform analytics using intuitive browser-based tools.
• BigInsights Data Scientist provides advanced analytics capabilities such as BigR for statistical analysis and modeling.
• All these packages are available as optional preloaded software, giving you the flexibility to obtain just the required functions, with the ability to add additional capabilities at a later time. All analytics software must be separately ordered

New switch optionE Ethernet and IB switches are now available to integrate with the system to provide high-speed networking options required for data-intensive, scale-out workloads.

This fully integrated infrastructure solution includes its own integrated software, including OS. There are no prerequisites.

Planned availability date:

• September 18, 2015, for all features except EHJR and EHJS
• September 25, 2015:
  • EHJR – IBM BigInsights Data Scientist Indicator
  • EHJS – IBM BigInsights Analyst Indicator