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Dell Technologies works closely with Cloudera to identify the needs of Apache Hadoop customers and to validate hardware- and software-based solutions. These efforts empower organizations with deeper insights, and help them employ enhanced, data-driven decision making by using the right infrastructure for the right data.
Dell PowerScale and Cloudera combine to create a powerful yet simple, highly efficient, and massively scalable storage platform with integrated support for Hadoop analytics. PowerScale is the first and only scale-out NAS platform to incorporate native support for the HDFS layer. Unstructured data on PowerScale and native HDFS layer allow you to quickly implement an in-place data analytics approach. This ability helps avoid unnecessary capital expenditures, increased operational costs, and time-consuming replication of big data to a separate infrastructure.
This document describes the high-level design, performance results, and best practices for deploying Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud Base on bare-metal infrastructure with PowerScale scale-out NAS as a shared-storage back end.