Cisco plans for the data explosion to be brought about by the Internet of Things (IoT) with the signing of resale agreements with Apache Hadoop-powered software developers Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR.
As a result customers get single touch Hadoop-- in either Cloudera, Hortonworks or MapR flavours-- deployment and management across Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) rack and blade servers via the recently launched UCS Director Express for Big Data.
The Hadoop offerings will also be integrated into the Cisco Data Virtualisation environment, allowing users to "abstract, access and query data and deliver it into a Hadoop cluster for cost-effective processing and data management."
“Achieving the business outcomes of big data requires an analytics-ready infrastructure that enables a broad range of joint solutions with ecosystem partners," Cisco says. "That’s why Cisco is excited to be working with Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR and reselling their Hadoop-based data management solutions to customers."