Hybrid Lakehouse Storage Solutions: Pure Storage

The data lakehouse is an architectural pattern that leverages storage layers like Hadoop or object storage as the center of gravity for your data. Using tools like Dremio, you can create a decoupled, modular data warehouse. The key component connecting platforms like Dremio to your data lake is a data lakehouse table format such as Apache Iceberg. This enables your data lake to be treated as database tables with all the same ACID guarantees.

Data Lakehouses provide:

• Cost Savings: Fewer copies of your data and less compute required for ETL pipelines.
  
• Flexibility: Multiple tools can operate on a single copy of your data.
  
• Reduced Time to Insight: With minimal data movement, you can deliver data to BI dashboards and AI/ML models more quickly.

Beyond the inherent benefits of the data lakehouse architecture, the specific tools you use to construct it can further enhance these advantages. Two primary components are the data lakehouse platform and the storage layer.

Dremio, a data lakehouse platform, maximizes the benefits of the data lakehouse in three key ways:

• Unified Analytics: Dremio unifies your data lakehouse with other data sources like databases and data warehouses. It includes an integrated semantic layer for defining your data models and metrics across all your data.
  
• SQL Query Engine: Dremio boasts a best-in-class SQL query engine that delivers industry-leading price/performance for running queries across all your data sources.
  
• Lakehouse Management: Dremio automates the processes needed to maintain and optimize your data lakehouse tables. It also offers an enterprise catalog with Git-like features for unique data quality management.

While Dremio serves as the data lakehouse platform, your storage layer can also bring many unique features and added value to your overall lakehouse architecture. Let's highlight one of these exceptional storage solutions.

What is Pure Storage?

Pure Storage is a leading provider of all-flash data storage solutions designed to meet the demands of modern data infrastructures. As organizations face evolving challenges such as artificial intelligence, cyber threats, modern applications, and sustainability, Pure Storage delivers innovative storage solutions that help businesses stay ahead. Pure Storage offers a unified data platform that spans from the edge to the cloud, providing seamless integration and consistent performance across diverse workloads and data types. With a focus on simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, Pure Storage enables organizations to leverage their data more effectively, ensuring that their data infrastructure can support current and future needs.

What does Pure Storage bring to the table?

Integrating Pure Storage as the storage layer in your data lakehouse architecture can provide several significant benefits:

Cost Savings:

• Pure Storage's efficient platform reduces the need for extensive data provisioning and maintenance, leading to lower operational costs.
• The all-flash storage solution minimizes space and power consumption, contributing to substantial savings on infrastructure expenses.
• By eliminating downtime and increasing reliability, Pure Storage helps avoid the costs associated with maintenance and disruptions.

Performance and Scalability:

• Pure Storage delivers industry-leading performance with its all-flash technology, ensuring fast and reliable access to data.
• The platform is designed to scale seamlessly, allowing you to handle increasing data volumes and diverse workloads without compromising performance.
• With AI-enabled optimization and automation, Pure Storage continuously enhances performance and efficiency, reducing the need for manual intervention.

Unified Data Management:

• Pure Storage provides a consistent experience across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, simplifying data management and access.
• The unified storage pool supports multiple use cases, from mission-critical applications to backup and recovery, all accessible through flexible APIs.
• Integrated data services and an enterprise catalog with git-like features enable efficient data quality management and governance.

Simplicity and Automation:

• The platform's intuitive management interface and self-service capabilities reduce the complexity of data operations, empowering IT generalists to manage storage with ease.
• Automated provisioning, configuration, and maintenance processes streamline operations, freeing up IT staff to focus on strategic projects.
• Guaranteed SLAs ensure predictable performance, uptime, and efficiency, enhancing overall operational reliability.

Sustainability:

• Pure Storage's efficient design supports sustainability initiatives by reducing power and space requirements, aligning with organizational goals to minimize environmental impact.
• The platform's ability to scale without disruptive upgrades helps maintain operational continuity and supports long-term sustainability efforts.

By leveraging Pure Storage as your hybrid lakehouse storage solution, you can maximize the benefits of the data lakehouse architecture, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability while simplifying data management and supporting sustainability goals. Pure Storage not only meets the demands of today's data challenges but is also poised to adapt and thrive as those challenges evolve.

Conclusion

The data lakehouse architecture provides an innovative approach to managing and utilizing data, combining the flexibility and scalability of data lakes with the structured, efficient querying capabilities of data warehouses. By using object storage as the center of gravity for your data and integrating tools like Dremio and Apache Iceberg, you can achieve significant cost savings, flexibility, and reduced time to insight.

Dremio, as a data lakehouse platform, unifies analytics, delivers a powerful SQL query engine, and automates lakehouse management, maximizing the advantages of this architecture. When paired with Pure Storage, a leading provider of all-flash data storage solutions, the benefits are further enhanced. Pure Storage offers cost savings, exceptional performance and scalability, unified data management, simplicity, automation, and sustainability, making it an ideal storage solution for your data lakehouse.

By leveraging Pure Storage and Dremio together, you can optimize performance, ensure cost efficiency, and simplify data management while supporting sustainability goals. These solutions are designed to meet the challenges of today's data landscape and are equipped to adapt and thrive as those challenges evolve.

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