EMC Corporation announced EMC Isilon scale-out NAS integrated with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) combined with EMC Greenplum HD, to deliver powerful data analytics on a flexible, highly-scalable and efficient storage platform.

A press statement from EMC said that companies are recognizing the need to co-process both structured and unstructured data. As a part of the EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), the integrated Isilon solution enables customers to plug Hadoop-derived insight directly into a structured data analytics workflow without moving the data.

“This improves collaboration and speeds data analytics for our customers, enabling them to uncover new insights quickly and efficiently to maintain their competitive edge,” said Luke Lonergan, Chief Technology Officer, Greenplum, a division of EMC.

This new enterprise-ready solution combines scale-out NAS data storage and Hadoop analytics capabilities with services, training and certification, and customer support from a single vendor, ensuring a more seamless user experience. With this solution, EMC eliminates CIOs’ need to spend valuable time investigating and integrating products from multiple vendors.

EMC said that as the amount of unstructured data in the enterprise grows, companies require an efficient and scalable storage system to help them manage growth, and a powerful analytics tool to derive valuable information from this data.

“EMC Isilon scale-out NAS with native HDFS provides Hadoop users with built-in access to a shared storage infrastructure thereby bridging the gap between the innovative powers of Big Data Hadoop and mission critical enterprise IT analytics,” the company said.