A whole new universe of data is being produced by the Internet of Things devices, connected cars, wind sensors, smart TVs, activity trackers; essentially, anything that generates data. That information not only needs to be stored for later reference, enterprises are looking to run real-time analysis on the data sets, immediately.

Until recently, organizations have used a combination of different tools to provide a makeshift solution, according to Vikram Bhambri, vice president of product management, Emerging Technology Division, at Dell EMC. But now, Dell EMC has come up with a better idea, he said.

“Project Nautilus is, essentially, our attempt to streamline all of the data from IoT devices to be processed real time or for batch in the same solution,” Bhambri stated.

After the data is processed, it could be pushed down to archive on Isilon or Elastic Cloud Storage, depending on the use case. It simplifies the entire real-time analytics process and creates a new paradigm called “streaming storage,” open-sourced via Project Pravega, he explained.

Bhambri recently spoke to Paul Gillin (@pgillin) and John Furrier (@furrier), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the solutions that Dell EMC is working on to help make the world of big data easier to navigate for enterprises across industries. (* Disclosure below.)

The best of both cloud worlds

The public versus private cloud debate still looms large in the enterprise. Bhambri spoke of the two cloud “extremes” and why each is attractive to customers for different reasons.

Public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, provide extreme ease-of-use; one swipe of a credit card and a user is done, he said. For some clients, though, regulatory requirements may make this impractical, so the other extreme they go for is on-prem, such as with Dell EMC’s ECS.

“Now customers are asking, ‘Can I have the best of both worlds?’” Bhambri stated. While they enjoy the privacy of using ECS in their own data center, they are not looking to take on infrastructure management. In order to give those customers the best of both possible cloud worlds, Dell EMC launched ECS Dedicated Cloud Service, targeted specifically for clients who have one or two data centers but want to use the full strength and capabilities of ECS.

The client’s bot is put into a Dell EMC data center, where the ECS team will operate and manage that environment for the customer. However, since they are the only dedicated customer on that cloud, they have their own environment, making it secure for their data. This gives them extreme choice and flexibility, Bhambri concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Dell EMC World 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell EMC World. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial influence on content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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