EMC Corporation has introduced Federation Business Data Lake, 
which makes it easy to deploy a Business Data Lake. Core products from the EMC Federation of Companies, EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware, provide the core functionality of the Federation Business Data Lake meeting the critical functional needs – Store, Analyze, Surface and Act.
The Federation Business Data Lake is a fully engineered solution that can be rapidly and automatically provisioned, enabling IT organizations to lead the needs of the business. The analytics layer is completely virtualized with VMware running on Vblocks with predefined analytics use cases and automated provisioning and configuration. EMC Isilon provides the Data Lake Storage Foundation, delivering the ideal balance of capacity and performance.
The Federation Business Data Lake joins the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution as a converged solution from the EMC Federation that will redefine infrastructure to maximize the speed and agility for IT organizations deploying Hybrid Clouds and Data Lakes.
Business Data Lakes are becoming a top corporate priority because they fill a critical gap left by traditional data warehousing.
A Business Data Lake contains structured and unstructured data from a wide variety of sources and the analytics are focused on building models to predict the future. Companies with successful Data Lakes are leveraging the data and predictive models to build new products, applications and business models to redefine their industry, taking or extending the “Market Leader” role.
Until now, building an effective Data Lake has been difficult and complex. IT organizations seeking to deploy a Data Lake must deploy and configure the right analytics platform and the right corresponding storage for each analytics use case, from Hadoop to real-time.
Once the environment is created, data must be loaded with all the right access rights and governance applied to the data sets. Deployment of the environment and data sets is a complex and time-consuming task, preventing IT from meeting the needs of business users.
Amit Mehta, Country Manager, Isilon Storage Division sad, “Organizations today across the globe are struggling with the volume, variance and velocity of data. Many IT organizations are finding it challenging to keep up with the demands of their business users and enable rapid deployment of Big Data analytics. The challenge for them has been the complexity of mapping analytics use cases to the right technology stack and right storage platform, then deploying and configuring it all together. However, the new challenge requires a new approach. The new Federation Business Data Lake provides a fully engineered, enterprise-grade data lake tuned to the strategic priorities of the businesses that can help organizations realize the value of big data analytics as little as one week”.
The company has also announced the launch of its Hadoop Innovation Centre in the APJ region, located within EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) at Bengaluru. A first of its kind in the industry, the Centre will showcase solutions with Cloudera, Hortonworks and Pivotal. The company also announced the launch of a 4-week free, open, online, interactive course on ‘Data Lakes for Big Data MOOC’, under the aegis of EMC Academic Alliances.
