IBM dropped its own Hadoop distribution in favor of reselling Hortonworks' bundle of big data technologies, a decision that reduces the number of Hadoop vendors to four. For users of the two companies, it could mean increased access to enterprise capabilities for managing and analyzing big data.
https://hortonworks.com/press-releases/ibm-hortonworks-expand-partnership/ Today's business leaders demand servers designed for big data that are optimized, secure, and adapt to changing workload requirements. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html offer servers built with open technologies and designed for mission-critical data applications. Power Systems leverages technology from the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open technology ecosystem that uses the IBM POWER architecture to help meet the evolving needs of big data applications. The combination of Power Systems with https://hortonworks.com/products/data-center/hdp/ provides users with a highly efficient platform that provides leadership performance for big data workloads like Hadoop and Spark. http://www.eweek.com/big-data-and-analytics/ibm-hortonworks-team-up-to-make-data -science-more-mainstream The companies plan to combine the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) with the IBM Data Science Experience and IBM Big SQL into new integrated solutions created to help enterprises and other organizations better analyze and manage the growing volume of data they're accumulated. Lizette Koehler statistics: A precise and logical method for stating a half-truth inaccurately ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN