Built upon our vision of shared infrastructure and unified management, the Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data has become a leading platform for Big Data deployments. Today we are announcing support for Cloudera Enterprise 5 -an industry leading data management platform that combines Apache Hadoop with a number of other open source projects all integrated in to a single enterprise ready platform. The joint solution is tested and certified by Cisco and Cloudera to accelerate enterprise Hadoop deployments while significantly reducing the risks, complexity, and total cost of ownership.

With Hadoop at its core, Cloudera Enterprise enables an enterprise data hub by making it economically viable and technically feasible for enterprises to keep all their data in a single, centralized platform, from which they can store, process and analyze data in full fidelity, for a variety of enterprise workloads. Cloudera Enterprise 5 delivers tight integration with existing enterprise data management systems including key attributes to deliver robust security, governance, and data protection and management that enterprises require.

The Cisco and Cloudera joint solution is available in two reference architectures,Performance-Capacity Balancedand Capacity Capacity Optimized, both support up to 10 racks at 16 servers each without additional switches. ThePerformance-Capacity Balancedconfiguration provides an excellent balance of computing power and storage capacity supporting 32GBps of I/O bandwidth and 384TB storage per rack. TheCapacity Optimizedconfiguration provides a high storage density for storage-intensive deployments supporting 16GBps of I/O bandwidth and 768TB storage per rack for a total of 7.68PB when scaled to a 10 rack configuration.

Scaling beyond 10 racks (160 servers) can be implemented by interconnecting multiple UCS domains using Nexus 7000/9000 Series switches, scalable to thousands of servers and to hundreds of petabytes storage, and managed from a single pane using UCS Central in a datacenter or distributed globally.

The base rack configuration is available through Cisco UCS Solution Accelerator Paks for Big Data program, designed for: ease of ordering, rapid deployments, tested and validated for performance, and optimized for cost of ownership. Performance and Capacity Balanced rack SKU: UCS-SL-CPA2-PC and Capacity Optimized rack SKU: UCS-SL-CPA2-C.

Additional Information
Big Data Design Zone
Cisco Validated Design: Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data with Cloudera