Bigstep Launches First-to-market Data Lake as a Service

Bigstep Launches First-to-market Data Lake as a Service

LONDON, October 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    The Full Metal Data Lake [http://bigstep.com/full-metal-data-lake ] is the first
commercially available data lake as a service offering in the market, recently announced
by big data focused cloud provider Bigstep [http://bigstep.com ]. Priced at just GBP0.018
for one gigabyte of raw data stored per month, the Full Metal Data Lake is an active
storage solution that can ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured data, and
make them available for processing by a multitude of applications, including enterprise
data warehouses or open source technologies such as Apache Hadoop or Spark. The Full Metal
Data Lake is available in Bigstep's Full Metal Cloud [http://bigstep.com/full-metal-cloud ]
, the world's highest performance cloud purpose built for big data.

    The Full Metal Data Lake can be used as a standalone solution for active data storage,
or it can be integrated with on premise infrastructure, as well as with any application or
service in the Full Metal Cloud ecosystem. The service can be activated instantly, and
requires no configuration or minimum commitment.

    The key features of the Full Metal Data Lake are:

       
        - It can store files of any type or size

    This includes structured data, such as data base exports from existing enterprise data
warehouses, but also unstructured data like: clickstream, social media streams, images,
video & audio, machine data, sensor data, scanned documents, CRM & ERP data.

    Data can be continuously streamed in or imported in batches.

       
        - Data stored can be processed in any application

    The Full Metal Data Lake is natively HDFS compatible and integrates with most big data,
business intelligence, and data science tools such as: Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, most
NoSQL data bases (Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis), Elasticsearch, Solr, Qlik, Tableau, R. It
is also compatible and can import or export data into most enterprise data warehouse
solutions.

       
        - Data is encrypted in transit and at rest

    All files are encrypted in transit and at rest, in order to ensure enterprise-grade
data privacy standards are met by the Full Metal Data Lake. Furthermore, data can be
imported or exported via encrypted tunnels or SSL connections.

       
        - File level snapshotting and replication, across regions

    Individual snapshotting and replication rules can be set at the file or directory
level. As a result, business critical or performance sensitive files can be replicated
multiple times for high availability and throughput, while colder data can have lower
replication factors. Files can currently be replicated in both availability regions of the
Full Metal Cloud (UK and Germany), and a third, US region, will follow later in the year.

    With the launch of the Full Metal Data Lake, Bigstep has also announced it will be
offering its first 100 users the possibility to permanently store 1 TB of data for free.

    Additional information on the Full Metal Data Lake or the Full Metal Cloud can be
found on the Bigstep website - http://www.bigstep.com.

       
         
        Contact: 
        Ioana Hreninciuc, 
        Commercial Director, 
        T: +44-(0)7725-937-831 
        marketing@bigstep.com  

     

Big Step Cloud Ltd