HP and Hortonworks Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Big Data Solutions for the Enterprise
24 Juli 2014 - 1:45PM
HP and Hortonworks today announced a strategic partnership to
address the critical big data needs of enterprise customers.
The joint commitment will help accelerate the adoption of
Enterprise Apache Hadoop by deeply integrating the Hortonworks Data
Platform with the HP HAVEn big data platform. The partnership is
also supported by a $50 million equity investment by HP.
As part of the partnership, HP and Hortonworks have committed to
integrate their engineering strategies and deepen their existing
go-to-market collaboration, enabling HP customers to deploy the
Hortonworks Data Platform as the Hadoop component of HP HAVEn. HP
will also work to certify HP Vertica with Apache Hadoop YARN, the
architectural center of Hadoop 2.0.
"The ability to understand data and put it to effective use is
now more crucial than ever," said Colin Mahony, general manager, HP
Vertica. "Hortonworks has demonstrated outstanding dedication and
expertise in addressing the business and technology needs of its
customers within this new era of information and data, and we look
forward to partnering with the Hortonworks team to deliver
innovative big data solutions to our customers."
"We are extremely pleased to work more closely with HP to
accelerate our joint customers' transition to a modern data
architecture," said Rob Bearden, chief executive officer,
Hortonworks. "Through deep integration with Enterprise Apache
Hadoop, HP customers will be able to easily build their next
generation of applications with the Hortonworks Data Platform."
HP's Martin Fink joins Hortonworks board of
directors
This strengthened relationship between HP and Hortonworks will
also include a seat on the Hortonworks board of directors, which
will be filled by Martin Fink, executive vice president and chief
technology officer, HP.
Fink's research team at HP Labs, the company's exploratory and
advanced research group, is responsible for anticipating IT trends
to address the complex issues that customers will face over the
next decades. As leader of HP's Cloud business, Fink is also
driving the execution of HP's cloud strategy, helping the industry
transition to cloud-based provider and consumption models. During
his nearly 30-year career at HP, Fink has led the company's overall
open source and Linux strategy.
"Our partnership with Hortonworks exemplifies HP's longstanding
commitment to open source technology for the enterprise," said
Fink. "I'm excited to be able to partner with the Hortonworks
leadership team to help them deliver flexible, tailored, open
solutions to customers on the industry's most powerful big data
platform."
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is the only 100-percent open source software
provider to develop, distribute and support an Apache Hadoop
platform explicitly architected, built and tested for
enterprise-grade deployments. Developed by the original architects,
builders and operators of Hadoop, Hortonworks stewards the core and
delivers the critical services required by the enterprise to
reliably and effectively run Hadoop at scale. Hortonworks'
distribution of the Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open and
stable foundation for enterprises and delivers a modern data
architecture with the support of key technology partners.
Hortonworks also provides unmatched technical support, training and
certification programs. For more information, visit
www.hortonworks.com.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful
impact on people, businesses, governments and society. With the
broadest technology portfolio spanning printing, personal systems,
software, services and IT infrastructure, HP delivers solutions for
customers' most complex challenges in every region of the world.
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http://www.hp.com.
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