Joyent Launches Manta Service For Cloud Computing, Storage

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Starting Tuesday, Joyent is offering a new type of storage combined with compute services. Joyent Manta Storage Service will keep data stored close to the servers that will analyze and work with it. That description might be applied to Hadoop, which runs big data batch jobs on a single cluster. Joyent Manta will use MapReduce to bring data and compute together on one or several clusters. The clusters may be located in one or several data centers. And unlike Hadoop, the data will remain close to the compute resources on a persistent basis, eliminating the long extract, transform and load (ETL) processes that often accompany the execution of a big data job.

Thus, Manta Storage Service will be able to do a single job or a series of jobs, some of them batch, some of them near real-time analytics. Manta, in fact, could fit a Hadoop job into its compute and object storage system, and run a wide variety of other applications as well, depending on what its users want to do. As a service from Joyent, customers will be charged — by the second — for the Manta services they use…

In short, the development team at Joyent has taken many of the core principals of big data management and built them into a general purpose system on the Joyent infrastructure. It’s available as both a scalable big data and an elastic, general-purpose compute service. Because it potentially eliminates the long load times of other big data systems, it can be used for server log analysis, website visitor analysis, search index generation, exchange trading analysis and other uses involving large amounts of data being generated in real time, said Jason Hoffman, CTO and co-founder of Joyent…

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