Pivotal and Hortonworks together to create Hadoop standard management tools

Pivotal will work with the Apache Hadoop release provider Hortonworks on the open source project, Apache Ambari, whose collaboration will help refine Hadoop as an enterprise-class application and will significantly enhance the Hadoop ecosystem.

Hortonworks recently received a $50 million worth of equity investment from Hewlett-Packard, and now has another powerful partner, pivotal, who will collaborate on the open source project, the Apache Ambari. The Apache Ambari provides a set of tools and APIs to standardize, manage, and monitor Hadoop clusters, and their collaboration is expected to boost the development of Hadoop's enterprise applications and the entire Hadoop ecosystem. This article comes from Gigaom.

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Pivotal will collaborate with the Apache Hortonworks distribution provider in the open source project Apache Ambari, Apache Ambari provides a set of tools and APIs to standardize, manage, and monitor the Hadoop cluster. Their collaboration will help refine Hadoop as an enterprise-class application and will significantly enhance the Hadoop ecosystem.

Ambari is designed to make Hadoop operations simpler by providing a set of standard management tools. Many vendors today have a strong interest in Hadoop and have invested heavily in promoting open source, distributed computing architectures that provide the foundation for Ambari projects.

Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz

To make Hadoop more appealing to businesses, Hortonworks recently received a $50 million worth of equity investment from Hewlett-Packard. And now another powerful partner, PIVOTAL--EMC and Vmwarevmware, was led by the former chief executive of VMware, Paul Maritz.

Pivotal's goal is enterprise software developers, enterprise-class Hadoop is an important part of this goal. To this end, Pivotal has invested heavily in Hadoop, which has its own distributed, complementary modules, such as HAWQ, GemFire XD and Pivotal Command Center.

"The Apache Hadoop project is critical to our realization of our Enterprise's greatest value," said Jamie Buckley, vice president of pivotal product management. "An open-source, scalable, and independent vendor application that manages services in a standardized manner is beneficial to the entire ecosystem." It increases the customer's choice of space and lowers the operating cost, and will eventually drive the development of Hadoop. ”

Pivotal by encouraging engineers to contribute to installation, configuration, and management capabilities for Ambari, Pivotal will deliver on their commitments to old customers and will help them benefit from this collaboration.

Shaun Connolly, vice president of Hortonworks strategy, said: "Pivotal has a strong open source contribution and has proven their commitment through cloud Foundry, Spring, and Redis, Working with Hortonworks and other Apache Hadoop ecosystem members will further increase the investment in the Apache Ambari as a standard management tool, which would be great for Hadoop. Pivotal's open source legacy and technical prowess will promote faster success with Hadoop.