Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data offers a comprehensive stack for enterprise Hadoop deployments. Today we announce the availability of Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for Cloudera (CDH) that describes the architecture and deployment procedures, jointly tested and certified by Cisco and Cloudera to accelerate deployments while reducing the risks, complexity, and total cost of ownership.

Together, Cisco and Cloudera are well positioned to help organizations exploit the valuable business insights found in all their data, regardless of whether it's structured, semi structured or unstructured. The solution offers industry-leading performance, scalability and advanced management capabilities to address the business needs of our customers.

The rack level configuration detailed in the document can be extended to multiple rack scale. Up to 160 servers (10 racks) can be supported with no additional switching in a single UCS domain. Scaling beyond 10 racks can be implemented by interconnecting multiple UCS domains using Nexus 6000/7000 Series switches, scalable to thousands of servers and to hundreds of petabytes storage, and managed from a single pane using UCS Central.

We would like to invite you to our upcoming Journey to Big Data Roadshow in a city near you, designed to help you identify where you are on your Big Data journey, and how to keep that journey going in a low-risk, productive way.

Additional Information:

1. Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data with Cloudera
2. Flexpod Select for Hadoop with Cloudera
3. Cloudera Enterprise with Cisco Unified Computing System (solution brief)