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April 11, 2012

GoGrid's High Performance Platform for Predictive Analytics

GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, has announced a Big Data Solution, an offer that’s based on a hybrid infrastructure architecture that combines the best of cloud computing with single-tenant infrastructure components. Everything is managed through the GoGrid management portal. This solution was designed support high-performance analytic jobs and it can be used for applications that leverage NoSQL solutions like Hadoop in order to serve up content via app servers.

The Big Data Solution bundle includes pre-configured hardware to match requirements for running Cloudera's Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) as an introduction to Hadoop or as a proof of concept. The bundle consists of 1 Name Node and 3 Data Nodes in a multi-rack architecture, plus GoGrid's Professional Cloud plan. This will allow customers to leverage the cloud servers in order to quickly scale on-demand. This enables sudden spikes in traffic to be accommodated while leveraging the single-tenant infrastructure.

CMO of GoGrid Jeffrey Samuels said, "The GoGrid cloud is about automation and allowing customers to scale efficiently. With the introduction of the new Big Data Solution, we can provide businesses with a reliable, high-performance hybrid cloud infrastructure specifically designed for Big Data workloads. We're excited that we've already helped many customers optimize their Hadoop clusters on GoGrid.”

Lydia Leong, research VP at Gartner (News - Alert) said, "Organizations of all sizes are embracing the use of Big Data analytics tools like Hadoop as well as incorporating cloud transaction processing principles into applications that need massive scale, including the use of NoSQL databases such as Cassandra. Because these technologies are new to many organizations, customers may seek assistance from service providers - whether cloud IaaS providers with strong customer support and managed services capabilities around these technologies or consultancies that specialize in these technologies.”

Martini Media has already deployed the Big Data Solution. Martini’s platform requires substantial processing power to handle more than 250 million online events each day.

"We considered four providers, and only GoGrid offered everything we wanted," said Manicka Babu, VP of engineering at Martini Media. "Most important was the hybrid architecture. We're very pleased with the performance we’ve obtained. The improvements in Cassandra replication and latency are impressive."


Edited by Amanda Ciccatelli
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