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Designing Big Data Storage Infrastructures
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Big Data is essentially a combination of processes and infrastructure that allow organizations to capture, analyze and manipulate large sets of structured (information in databases) and unstructured (file) data with the eventual goal of extracting value from that data. Big Data turns the traditional storage problem upside down.

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A Big Data storage infrastructure is a unique storage project compared to most other environments. While the requirements of Big Data, such as the ability to scale capacity and performance while maintaining reliability and cost effectiveness, are similar to other data center storage projects. What makes Big Data unique is the extreme to which it takes these requirements. Speed to scale, flexibility to scale and a watchful eye on cost are all critical and it’s these extreme requirements for which Scale-out NAS is best suited.

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