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A few weeks ago we announced that Dell, with a little help from Cloudera, was delivering a complete Apache Hadoop solution.  Well as of last week its now officially available!

As a refresher:

The solution is comprised of Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop, running on optimized Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers with Dell PowerConnect 6248 switch, delivered with joint service and support from both companies.  You can buy it either pre-integrated and good-to-go or you can take the DIY route and set up yourself with the help of

• Dell | Cloudera Solution: Reference Architecture Guide
• Dell | Cloudera Solution: Deployment Guide

Learn more at the Dell | Cloudera page.

Extra-credit reading

• Dell floats Cloud Hadoop clusters – The Register
• Why open source tools might need a hardware hook – GigaOm
• Dell and Cloudera team up for integrated Hadoop stack – ZDNet UK

• Dell and Cloudera: A Serious Validation Point for Hadoop – It’s Not a Science Experiment Anymore – SiliconANGLE

Pau for now…

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