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Putting the Power of Data to Work

MSA’s Information Management Solutions (IMS) division provides data-driven insights to its manufacturing and distributor customers.

Challenge

  • Enhance scalability and performance to manage data demands.
  • Help customers make data-driven decisions that increase revenues.
  • Control infrastructure costs.

Solution

  • Built a powerful new platform for big data analytics on the MapR Apache Hadoop distribution platform
  • Used the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) as the underlying infrastructure

Outcome

  • Daily, near real-time reporting for faster decisions
  • Ability to sort 1 TB of data in under 16 minutes across 8 nodes
  • Reduced server provisioning time from 6 hours to 2 hours
We had the people and the data. Now we have the technology to enhance our predictive analytics.
- Karl Herleman,
Vice President of Information Technology, IMS Division, MSA.