Companies announce plan to accelerate Project Savanna within the
OpenStack Foundation
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Hortonworks,
the leading contributor to ApacheTM Hadoop®, Mirantis,
the largest OpenStack® systems integrator and Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions and the largest contributor to the most recent release of
OpenStack, today announced they are working together to contribute
significantly to Project
Savanna under the OpenStack community guidelines to deliver Apache
Hadoop on OpenStack. This collaboration aims to provide many benefits
including providing open source APIs and simpler transitions when moving
Hadoop workloads between public and private clouds.
OpenStack is a framework for building and managing private, public and
hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds with core software
projects providing compute, storage and networking management services,
and a shared identity service and dashboard. Hadoop enables distributed
processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple
programming models. The goal of Project Savanna is to enable OpenStack
users to easily provision and manage elastic Hadoop clusters to speed
the development and deployment of cost-effective Hadoop on OpenStack.
Project Savanna
The collaborative effort between Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat will
focus primarily on contributing engineering resources to Project
Savanna, originally developed as an OpenStack project by Mirantis. An
important initial step for Savanna is to provide an integration point
for third party Hadoop provisioning and management frameworks, such as
the Apache
Ambari project. This will allow enterprise users to provision Hadoop
distributions very quickly via OpenStack APIs and Dashboard. In
addition, Savanna will allow the utilization of unused compute power
from a general purpose OpenStack infrastructure pool for Hadoop
workloads. The companies expect to demonstrate the technology at the Hadoop
Summit on June 26, 2013 in San Jose, Calif.
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"With its efficient use of hardware and unparalleled agility, the cloud
is a logical deployment platform for Apache Hadoop and one that we see
many of our customers preferring," said Bob Page, vice president,
Products, Hortonworks. "Coupled with the fact that Hadoop is a net new
workload for many organizations, deployment on OpenStack is a logical
fit. By committing efforts to simplify the deployment and management of
Hadoop on OpenStack through linkage with Ambari, we believe we can
meaningfully accelerate the time to production for organizations
building out new Hadoop projects."
"Our vision for Savanna was to simplify deployment and management of
these big data Hadoop workloads on OpenStack. We are delighted to see
industry heavyweights, such as Red Hat and Hortonworks, starting to
contribute their expertise to the Savanna project," said Ilya Elterman,
Sr. Director of Cloud Services at Mirantis. "This is a major advancement
for the open source community and we are happy to collaborate with
Hortonworks and Red Hat."
"As enterprises and service providers look to big data as a competitive
differentiator and the open hybrid cloud as an innovation platform,
Hadoop deployments can accelerate OpenStack adoption and benefit from
consistent interfaces across public and private cloud implementations,"
said Greg Kleiman, director of strategy, Storage, Red Hat. "Red Hat is
committed to working on Project Savanna within the OpenStack Foundation
to make it simpler for enterprises to move big data workloads between
public and private clouds easily and cost-effectively."
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the
preeminent open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing big
data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache
Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a
growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is
the trusted source for information on Hadoop, and together with the
Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to
install, manage and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical
support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems
integrators and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.
About Mirantis
Mirantis delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application
infrastructure. Its focus is vendor-independent cloud implementation
uncompromised by opaque hooks or proprietary packaging. The company has
a unique cost-effective delivery model, founded on years of deep
software engineering experience for demanding Fortune 1000 companies.
Customers include Cisco, Dell, GE, Agilent, NASA, HP, AT&T, The Gap,
Axcient and Nexenta. Mirantis is headquartered in Mountain View,
California, with engineering centers in Russia and Ukraine. www.mirantis.com.
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enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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Hortonworks
Kim Rose, 650-759-6385
krose@hortonworks.com
or
Mirantis
Sue
Myers, 978-369-6336
smyers@mirantis.com
or
Red
Hat, Inc.
Karin Bakis, 978-392-1096
kbakis@redhat.com
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