Appistry announces partnerships with leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors

Hopefully you saw our big announcement this morning!  We are excited to announce strategic alliances with several of the leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors including Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga.

So what does this mean and why is it important you ask?
We are really excited to announce these partnerships because each of these vendors add unique value by simplifying the development of analytical applications on Hadoop and hiding the complexity of the underlying MapReduce framework.

If your following corporate trends, you’ll see that  “Big Data” is playing a more strategic role in helping enterprises understand and serve their customers. As a result, a broader set of users now require a more reliable and robust file storage system that is both easy-to-use and works with their existing Hadoop applications.  In the simplest terms, our partnerships with leading Hadoop vendors make this vision of a more robust storage system possible.

Under the terms of the partnership, each of these vendors’ products has been validated against Appistry CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition, which offers plug-and-play compatibility with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and each will work with Appistry to support joint customers using CloudIQ Storage in place of HDFS.

Without any changes to their applications, users of the Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga products can choose Appistry CloudIQ Storage as a more robust file system for their enterprise-grade Hadoop deployments. CloudIQ Storage is fully decentralized and offers higher availability and greater reliability than HDFS, whose “NameNode” is a single point of failure and network bottleneck.

Be sure to check out the full announcement

Here is a quick overview of the partners and their offerings:
• Concurrent develops software to help enterprises realize the full benefits of parallel computing clusters. Concurrent has released the Cascading open-source project, a layer over MapReduce that allows developers to rapidly create complex data processing and computing applications through a straightforward Java API. Cascading provides simpler abstractions to define applications and glue them together, as well as interfaces to work with external systems.
• Datameer offers the a big data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps business users access, analyze and use massive amounts of data. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company’s breakthrough product, Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. DAS scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, Yahoo!, IBM, and Amazon.
• Kitenga provides an innovative multi-media content mining solution for non-programming professionals, designed to reduce or eliminate the complexity, risk and cost typically associated with implementing massively scaled-out multimedia content mining solutions. Kitenga’s ZettaVox application combines ready-to-run content processing elements with a full-fledged content mining/analytics solution that distributes processing over cloud and cluster-based computing assets by leveraging the open-source Hadoop framework. The entire process can be monitored, batched, and the results analyzed using sophisticated visualization and analytics tools.

We encourage you to check out our additional resources to learn more about Appistry CloudIQ Hadoop Edition:

Appistry CloudIQ Storage, Hadoop Edition is available for free download through Appistry’s Peer2Peer community:
http://www.appistry.com/community/go/cloudiq-community-edition-download.
Appistry Web Site: www.appistry.com
CloudIQ Storage Product Page: http://www.appistry.com/products/cloud-iq-storage
CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition Page: http://www.appistry.com/products/cloud-iq-storage/hadoop-edition