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Greenplum Software, a provider of Enterprise Data Cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics, has signed an agreement with Arista Networks, a provider of networking solutions for large data center and high-performance computing environments, to help companies take advantage of new cloud computing and cloud networking paradigms in the data center as part of Greenplum's Enterprise Data Cloud or “EDC” initiative.

 

The initiative is focused on bringing the power of self-service and collaboration to data warehousing and analytics and aims at helping organizations to unify their data and empower business units and analysts to see data in new ways.

 

"Greenplum's partnership with Arista provides a simple and cost-effective way to use 10GbE networking at enormous scale which enables our customers to implement private data clouds that are both best of class in performance and completely virtualizable," said Luke Lonergan, co-founder and chief technology officer at Greenplum.

 

This partnership announcement represents the next phase in delivery of Greenplum's EDC vision, due to its definition of a new cost-performance and scalability metric for data warehousing and analytics. The company’s software-based EDC platform is designed to take advantage of disruptive new products and technologies such as Arista's next generation switch architecture, which facilitates high-performance, scalable network designs, resulting in faster, more reliable and cost-effective access to data that drives profits.

 

In addition, the Arista switch architecture is designed to enable a non-blocking 1/10 GbE network interconnect fabric for the Greenplum Database which is capable of supporting thousands of network nodes and several petabytes of data.

 

Also, the combined solution will scan data at 2 TB per second and load data at hundreds of TB per hour, which is far ahead compared to other existing OLTP-oriented database systems.

 

"We're very pleased to be working with Greenplum to deliver solutions that provide best-in-class cost-performance, availability and operational simplicity for customers implementing next-generation enterprise data clouds," said Ken Duda, co-founder and vice president of Software Engineering at Arista Networks.