A member of HP’s award winning ConvergedSystem family of cloud-ready and cloud-enabled converged systems, this device is a box – if you can call it that, for Microsoft’s implementation of Hadoop, which, in typical Bad Microsoft fashion, is call HDInsight, a moniker which does nothing to inform the IT populace at large about what it means!
For those wondering, the current ‘Big Data’ landscape looks as depicted in the image below.
This is today.
Already, people are drowning in data being returned from the very limited number of sensors deployed today. And as we all know, data is useless, until you can put it to work.
If we go ahead and multiply, by several logarithmic orders the number of sensors about to be deployed as part of the very heated Internet of Things initiatives sweeping the world.
Without meaningful sorting, slicing, dicing, analysis, and compartmentalizing of the data, it is quite worthless.
Into this, steps HP and Microsoft, trying to deliver an affordable, yet powerful solution.
HP brings market-leading hardware and services prowess into this, while Mighty Microsoft brings its unparalleled superiority in software into the fray.
Using HDInsight, HP and Microsoft have created an end-to-end product that combines dashboard, predictive modeling, and search into a scalable appliance.
This device is built to handle not only the velocity of data incoming, but also to handle the variety of day being input into it using its native data warehouse.
As you know, Microsoft HDInsight is engineered for querying both structured and unstructured data.
HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Microsoft Analytics Platform is built to be scalable, with the added benefit on onsite upgradeability.
Users will be able to leverage H’s extensive service organization in the planning, deployment, and technical support of this product.
As I learn more about HP ConvergedSystem for Microsoft Analytics Platform, and possibly get a deep dive into it at the forthcoming HP Discover event in Las Vegas, I will add to this in a subsequent blog post.
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