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The synergies of social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies are unlocking new value in big data. Growth in connected devices, or Internet of Things (IoT), is accelerating this Third Platform of IT. NetApp storage systems and data management solutions help boost performance for your data analytics applications so you can respond faster, lower costs and improve reliability.

Getting value from IoT data quickly can differentiate you and your organization. NetApp all-flash arrays help you accelerate time to value from your data analytics. Get the visibility and performance you need to always make the best decisions.

NetApp Storage and Data Management Solutions for Hadoop

The NetApp Storage Solution for Hadoop provides a ready-to-deploy, enterprise-class infrastructure for the Hadoop platform so you can control and gain insights from your big data.

Validated reference architectures deliver reliable Hadoop clusters and seamless integration of Hadoop with existing infrastructures. Benefits include:

• Reduced infrastructure (nodes, power, space) costs by 33 percent
• Support for all Apache-compatible distributions, including Hortonworks
• Hortonworks certification and compatibility with Hortonworks Data Cloud

There are two main types of Hadoop reference designs available for deployment:

• NetApp Storage Solution for Hadoop. For businesses that already have their own servers and networking and need, enterprise-class storage validated with a Hadoop distribution.
• FlexPod Select with Hadoop.  Joint reference architecture featuring pre-sized, enterprise-class components for Hadoop; validated on NetApp storage and Cisco UCS servers, with Hortonworks distributions of Hadoop.

NetApp FAS NFS Connector for Hadoop
Use NetApp FAS NFS Connector for Hadoop to run big data analytics on legacy NFSv3 data without moving the data, creating a separate analytics silo, or setting up a Hadoop cluster. NFS Connector lets you switch from HDFS to NFS or run NFS alongside HDFS. NFS Connector works with MapReduce for compute or processing and supports other Apache projects, including HBase and Spark.