Big Data is expected to fuel the next industrial revolution; an early sign is the wide adoption across major sectors including agriculture, education, entertainment, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and governments. The Big data technology and services market is growing about six times the growth rate of overall information and communication technology market, at 27% compound annual growth to$26 billion and expected drive 240 billion of  worldwide IT spending directly and indirectly in 2016, and moving towards a trillion dollars in 2020.

Through disruptive innovations Cisco UCS has demonstrated highest industry growth in the worldwide server market, and has been validated by analysts as a leading platform for business applications including big data and analytics. The Cisco solution for Big Data, the Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data, has already become a popular choice for enterprise Big Data deployments across major industry verticals. Today we are announcing the third generation of our solution,Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture for Big Data v3, extending on our vision ofIntegrated Infrastructureto help organizations deploy and scale applications faster to drive the revenue side of the business while reducing risk and TCO.

The new solution, Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, offers a set of reference architectures and solution bundles designed and optimized with  leading big data and analytics software partners including Actian, Cloudera, DataStax, Elastic Search, HortonWorks, MapR, MarkLogic, MongoDB, Pivotal, Platfora, SAP, SAS, Splunk, and others. These architectures can be used as is or customized to meet specific business requirements.

In addition, directly available from Cisco¹ -Cloudera Enterprise Basic/Flex/Data Hub editions, HortonWorks Data Platform Enterprise/Enterprise Plus Subscriptions, MapR M5 Enterprise Hadoop Platform/M7 Enterprise MapReduce with HBase Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cisco also offers Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data, a software stack integrated with Hadoop distributions from Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks¹, which automates deployment of Hadoop on C240 based Cisco UCS CPA v2 and v3¹ for Big Data, providing a single management pane across both physical infrastructure and Hadoop software.

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data:Cisco UCS CPA v3 Reference Architectures and Single SKU bundles¹ :

¹  Available 12/2014

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