Official: SoftLayer, an IBM Company and Cloudera Launch Turnkey Big Data Solutions on Bare Metal Servers.

The stakes here is to develop essential solutions for managing vast amounts of varied data.

In this dynamic, SoftLayer, an IBM Company, and Cloudera, a provider of big data solutions powered by Apache Hadoop, announced the availability of turnkey, multi-server SoftLayer infrastructure solutions running Cloudera platform.

Connectikpeople has observed that, the on-demand solutions are built on bare metal servers engineered for Cloudera best practices. The solutions are also designed and

deployed through SoftLayer’s easy-to-use solution designer tool.

At the core of its Cloudera Standard and Cloudera Enterprise editions is the open-source Apache Hadoop software. Cloudera Standard is a free download that combines CDH (Cloudera's entirely open source and enterprise-ready distribution of Apache Hadoop) with Cloudera Manager which provides cluster management capabilities like automated deployment, centralized administration, monitoring and diagnostic tools.

Cloudera Enterprise adds in Cloudera Navigator for data management, technical support, indemnity, and open source advocacy.

Features and Benefits include :

• Easy to design and deploy Cloudera applications on-demand and in real-time through SoftLayer Web-based Solution Designer, portal and API
• High performance and superior reliability using certified systems that are optimized for running Cloudera to analyze massive amounts of data including dedicated bare metal servers
• Superior scalability of global cloud infrastructure with a wide range of dedicated servers and options to tailor memory and storage
• Optimized infrastructure and best-practice deployments based on joint insights, expertise, and experience from SoftLayer and Cloudera

SoftLayer solutions with Cloudera are available, with prices starting at $699 per-month. This price includes an Intel Xeon 5620-based server with 24GB of RAM and two 500GB SATA storage drives.

About SoftLayer, an IBM Company

SoftLayer, an IBM Company, operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With 100,000 devices under management, 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service to leading-edge customers ranging from Web startups to global enterprises. SoftLayer’s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible unified platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a worldwide network for secure, low-latency communications. For more information, please visit softlayer.com.

About Cloudera

Founded in 2008, Cloudera pioneered the business case for Hadoop with CDH, the world’s most comprehensive, thoroughly tested and widely deployed 100% open source distribution of Apache Hadoop in both commercial and non-commercial environments. Now, the company is redefining data management with its Platform for Big Data, Cloudera Enterprise, empowering enterprises to Ask Bigger Questions™ and gain rich, actionable insights from all their data, to quickly and easily derive real business value that translates into competitive advantage. As the top contributor to the Apache open source community and leading educator of data professionals with the broadest array of Hadoop training and certification programs, Cloudera also offers comprehensive consulting services. Over 700 partners across hardware, software and services have teamed with Cloudera to help meet organizations’ big data goals. With tens of thousands of nodes under management and hundreds of customers across diverse markets, Cloudera is the category leader that has set the standard for Hadoop in the enterprise. cloudera.com