I'm amazed they haven't just implemented HDFS on the controllers, it should be possible with their architecture.
NetApp brings Hadoop functionality to its ONTAP customers
Doing what it's so so good at, NetApp has added a connector product, enabling its Data ONTAP customers to run Hadoop analytics on their NFS data store without having to copy data from WAFL into HDFS. Its NFS Connector for Hadoop enables Hadoop analytics to be run on the incoming Big Data from its various sources, and then …