Guide to supporting on-premise spark deployment with a could-scale platform

Key factors that drive the growth of Spark

Published September 2017

With the growth of unstructured data and the challenges of modern workloads such as Apache Spark, IT teams have seen a clear need during the past few years for a new type of all-flash storage solution, one that has been designed specifically for users requiring high levels of performance in file- and object-based environments. With FlashBlade, it addresses performance challenges in Spark environments by delivering the consistent performance of all-flash storage with no caching or tiering, as well as fast metadata operations and instant metadata queries.