Hortonworks Data Platform Available Through HP

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 29 – Hortonworks today announced that Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), the industry’s only 100-percent open source data platform, is now available for resell through HP.

Built, integrated and tested by the core architects of Apache Hadoop, HDP includes the necessary components to help refine and explore new data sources, and find new business insights. HDP allows enterprise organizations to cost-effectively capture, process and share data in any format and at any scale.

“This collaboration with HP will help customers and partners seamlessly incorporate Hadoop into their big data strategies and next-generation architectures,” said Shaun Connolly, vice president of corporate strategy, Hortonworks. “We are excited to be expanding our relationship which will enhance data architectures to power new applications and support existing ones.”

“Customers dealing with a large amount of data need an open and stable foundation to build and deploy big data solutions that optimize information,” said Paul Miller, VP of Converged Application Systems & Solutions, HP Enterprise Group. “By reselling Hortonworks Data Platform as a complementary component of HP’s enterprise solutions, our joint customers can now make one purchase for their big data architectures.”