Are You Ready for Big Data?Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Competitive

Digital data is the new oil. Vast amounts of data lie untapped under your business; far more than your traditional database and analytics solutions can handle. How you use this “big data” will determine how competitive your organization is. With the right approach, you can extend your information infrastructure to provide your people and your business applications with data-driven insights that create new opportunities and enable better and more profitable outcomes.

Make the Data Deluge Work for YouThe growing volume, variety, and velocity of data requires a transformation of your information infrastructure into a more flexible, distributed, and open environment—one that can scale with virtually no limit and adapt quickly as requirements change. It’s a tough challenge. Data structures are increasingly diverse and constantly changing, and today’s massive data sets place extreme demands on infrastructure.

Intel can help you meet these demands and develop a practical strategy for integrating big-data analytics into your business. In collaboration with leading solution providers, the open-source community, and global IT organizations, we develop advanced technologies for data-intensive computing that can benefit businesses and consumers operating at every scale—from smart phones to smart cities. We also integrate advanced technologies that make it easier for you to deliver the security, availability, and data integrity your business requires.

Ride the Wave of Open Source InnovationBig data requires distributed databases, such as Apache Hadoop*, to store and quickly analyze massive volumes of semi-structured and unstructured data. To provide the performance you need, we work with software vendors to optimize their code so it runs best on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. We have made extensive contributions to Linux*, Java*, Hadoop, HBase* and other open-source projects, and have collaborated with Google and Yahoo! on some of the earliest Hadoop implementations. We also work with Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights*, and other commercial distributions to help ensure their products are ready for enterprise deployment. As you deploy Hadoop, you can use freely available software tools—such as the HiTune performance analyzer and the HiBench benchmarking suite—to greatly simplify performance optimization, so you get higher value with less effort.

Leave No Data Set BehindTo realize the full value of big data, you must integrate it with the data in your relational databases. Intel technologies can help you extend system capabilities, simplify integration processes, and lay a foundation for rapid growth. Optimized solution stacks from trusted vendors help you move forward faster with less risk. We have been working on file-system development, in-memory technologies, and database optimization for more than 10 years, in collaboration with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and many others. Our current efforts focus on extending relational-database capabilities and simplifying integration with emerging big-data solutions.

You’re going to need massive performance increases to transform the way your business makes decisions. Technologies such as in-memory analytics, in-database analytics, and columnar data structures take advantage of new capabilities in Intel Xeon processors to enable order-of-magnitude performance gains. We work with the software ecosystem to optimize these technologies and provide a range of deployment options. You can mix and match hardware and software for maximum design flexibility, or you can take advantage of pre-integrated data center appliances for faster implementation.

Solution BriefIntel’s Vision for Big Data Computing Solutions

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THE CHALLENGES ARE BIG. INTEL CAN HELP.

Grow without limit

>> Using distributed big-data solutions based on industry-standard servers

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>> With silicon-based support for security, reliability, and data integrity

Build a smarter infrastructure

Stay in control

Simplify implementation

>> With unmatched choice of optimized solutions

>> With detailed technical resources

Over the next decade, businesses will need to absorb, analyze, and act upon fifty times more data than they do today. Intel is collaborating with a vast network of partners to address this big-data challenge through transformative new technologies delivered in scalable, open platforms.

— Vin SharmaEnterprise Open Source Software Strategist, Intel Corporation

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Protect Your Data As your data becomes distributed, new security, compliance, and reliability challenges emerge—especially when you use open-source solutions to support revenue-producing transactions. To deliver this kind of innovation to your business, you need hardened distributions designed for mission-critical environments. We help you address this need by integrating forward-looking technologies into Intel Xeon processors and working with the software ecosystem to ensure optimized support. Advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features protect your systems and operations. Integrated support for high-speed encryption lets you safeguard your data without slowing performance—all the way from your data center to your mobile clients.

With these and other advanced capabilities pre-integrated into your infrastructure, you can manage cost and risk more effectively as you grow. Should you decide to extend your solutions into the cloud, you will enjoy the same advantages, because Intel Xeon processors are widely deployed in public and private cloud infrastructures.

Define a Future that Works for YouBuilding an information infrastructure that delivers competitive advantage is a complex, ongoing process. To help you succeed, Intel connects more than 300 global IT organizations as a technical advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) and its new Data Services workgroup. This helps us understand the real-world challenges you encounter in your data center. Intel is also a founding underwriter of the International Institute for Analytics (IIA). Through these and other engagements, we focus our research and development efforts to provide foundational technologies you can use to address future challenges.

Take the PlungeThe big-data revolution is already underway. Some of today’s most successful companies are using solutions running on Intel architecture to increase revenue, improve efficiency, and differentiate themselves from their competitors. Now is the time to begin developing your own big-data strategy. Intel can help.

Intel CoreVast Room for GrowthVirtually unlimited scalability for all data types.

One View of the TruthIntegration with traditional databases for unified analytics.

Insight-Driven DecisionsBetter and more timely information throughout the business.

Fast, Deep AnalyticsMassively parallel processing for high-speed analysis.

Intel® Xeon® processors: The core of big-data solutions

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