Hortonworks News & Articles

Big Data is the new oil, the new gold, the new Californium Isotope … add your own metaphor. You’ve heard it said before, and you’ll hear it said again and again. 

Enterprises are hell-bent on managing data -- and managing data where there is no inherent data lifecycle management framework to leverage is a bear. A bear that most Enterprises prefer not to wrestle with.

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

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“Big Data” was all the rage in 2012. Everyone from your company’s president, to President Obama to a passerby on Main Street had something to say about it. Whether any of them could actually define the term was another matter; not even the experts seem to agree on what it means.

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Following Microsoft’s big data strategy is a bit like watching the US presidential election. We’ve endured months of shifting opinions, surprise partnerships, secrets and leaked information. Now the Seattle giant is capitalizing on the attention from this week’s Strata and Hadoop World to reveal a bit more about its big data play.

Business intelligence (BI) tool and services provider Jaspersoft is continuing to show its commitment to supporting non-traditional data sources for analytics. The company has announced its new Hadoop Partner Ecosystem, and it includes a few big names for the continuously expanding Hadoop market.

Hortonworks seems to be about the friendliest Hadoop provider around lately. Yahoo’s Hadoop spinoff, Hortonworks, has expanded its ecosystem with yet another partnership. Last week we reported on a new partnership with MarkLogic; this week, Hortonworks’ partner and real-time data integration provider Attunity have announced a new relationship. 

MarkLogic was doing big data long before big data became a required bullet point on every database provider’s sales slides, and it is continuing to evolve. Today at Strata, MarkLogic announced it has joined the technology partner program of Yahoo’s Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks.

We reported in October of last year that Microsoft was making the leap into NoSQL with a Windows version of Hadoop. Although several months have passed, there haven’t been any official statements from the Seattle giant regarding a concrete roadmap. We still don’t have any official details, but we do have a leaked slide.

Reports are circulating that Yahoo (news, site) will finally be announcing its commercial Hadoop spinoff company to compete with Cloudera (news, site). In a nod to the competition, Yahoo is supposed to call the new company HortonWorks, for the elephant in the Dr. Seuss classic, Horton Hears a Who.