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Modern companies in bioinformatics, manufacturing, finance and many other industries must capture, store, and analyze massive amounts of data, increasingly unstructured data. Hadoop is an open-source analysis architecture that can help find answers in this unstructured data. SGI has been one of the leading suppliers of Apache Hadoop clusters since the technology was first introduced - to both large commercial enterprises and key government agencies. SGI offers industry leading Big Data systems powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, giving organizations the ability to expose key insights in their data that help them compete, innovate, and meet mission critical objectives.

SGI Hadoop Starter Kits
For a customer new to Hadoop or for those who know about Hadoop but want a fully-integrated solution, SGI Hadoop starter kits are an ideal solution. SGI application engineers have tested and benchmarked the right configurations for you, in different sizes, from a half-rack worth of compute, to a full rack, and on to many racks. These starter kits are fully integrated and tested in the factory, with software loaded, and delivered to your door, ready to be plugged in and start delivering the capability of Hadoop immediately.

Design to Order Hadoop Clusters
If you're an experienced Hadoop user, you may want to take advantage of SGI design to order Hadoop clusters, which can be configured to meet your exact needs. Customer driven design points include performance, density, power, cooling, networking, and cost. Customers can choose to have these delivered fully-integrated and tested with software loaded.

SGI Hadoop Clusters Deliver:

  • Unprecedented speed and scale. A choice of high-performance processors, storage and networking

  • End-to-end solutions for data analytics. Complete solutions for essential functions such as data ingest and archiving

  • The world's only power-optimized Hadoop cluster. Dynamic, policy-driven power management built on Intel® Node Manager that optimizes computations per watt

  • Start Up and Go! Factory integrated systems that include servers, storage, networking, and a complete fully managed software environment

SGI Hadoop Clusters are built on software from Cloudera, the most widely deployed Apache Hadoop platform. SGI is also partnered with industry-leading analytics, visualization, and tool vendors offering pre-installed applications from Datameer, Kitenga, Quantum4D, and Pentaho.

To get started, contact SGI to about an easy-to-deploy SGI Hadoop Starter Kit, or speak with an SGI representative about a Design to Order Hadoop Cluster.