Today we completed our deal to buy Engenio, which was LSI’s external storage systems business. The E-Series is our name for the new platforms resulting from the acquisition.
In my earlier blog on Engenio, I mentioned some of the potential markets we saw, but now we can give more details about specific solutions. Val Bercovici has a blog describing the E-Series with Hadoop for big data/big analytics, and I’ve invited Mark Weber, who runs our U.S. Public Sector business, to share some thoughts about Full Motion Video, which is of particular interest for defense and intelligence customers.
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Engenio and NetApp Deliver Full Motion Video…Today
By Mark Weber, president NetApp U.S. Public Sector
Thanks, Dave. As Tom recently said, we’re seeing huge customer demand for very high bandwidth applications and full motion video (FMV) is a classic example of this. FMV is all about keeping eyes (via unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites) on as many targets as possible and is a concept that has been particularly hot with our federal customers in the defense and intelligence fields. FMV generates massive amounts of mission critical data and the demand for this data is growing fast.
Managing these huge data sets requires a highly scalable, very high performance and ultra-dense storage solution. What’s more, our federal customers are on the front-lines and require a storage environment that will allow them to access the mission critical information and data they need, when they need it. As part of today’s announcement, we’ve introduced a new Full Motion Video Storage Solution built on the E-Series Platform.
The new Full Motion Video Solution will allow our federal customers to worry less about how full motion video data is stored and accessed and more about their work in the field. The bottom line is the faster data can be accessed, evaluated, and disseminated the better the decision-making will be in an environment where every second counts. Our new Full Motion Video Solution is purpose built and uses an ultra-dense form factor that enables data to be stored for longer periods of time, providing a more thorough examination of data that enables our federal customers to make better and more informed decisions.
We’ve gained a talented group of people and fantastic technology that will allow us to build solutions on our E-Series Platform for customers using big bandwidth applications and full motion video is only the start. We are very excited about the future of this team and technology.
full motion video, applications running straight from the internet.. whats next?
Posted by: tony | May 31, 2011 at 08:37 AM
Is this a formal acknowledgement of a block based storage winning the race with WAFL? Is storage tiering coming next (a natural corollary for video archival)?
Posted by: Truth_is | June 08, 2011 at 08:22 AM