Friday, June 28th, 2013

Time	Event
11:30a	Splunk Unleashes Hunk for Hadoop With the Hadoop Summit North America underway this week in San Jose there are Hadoop announcements from Splunk, Hortonworks and NetApp, and Zettaset and Informatica. Splunk releases Hunk.  Splunk (SPLK)  announced the beta version of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. Hunk is a new software product that integrates exploration, analysis and visualization of data in Hadoop. Building upon Splunk’s years of experience with big data analytics technology deployed at thousands of customers, Hunk improves the speed of analyzing data in Hadoop without programming, costly integrations or forced data migrations. Key features include virtual index technology that enables seamless use of the entire Splunk technology stack, interactive data exploration across large, diverse data sets, interactive analysis of data in Hadoop, and building reports and custom dashboards. ”Hunk is an important addition to the Splunk product portfolio,” said Guido Schroeder, senior vice president of products, Splunk. ”Our customers love how Splunk software enables them to easily visualize and analyze data, and they asked us if we could help them do the same on the sizeable low-cost data stores they’ve built up in Hadoop. To create it, we extended our technology with a new patent-pending virtual index technology. Hadoop is a tremendous technology full of potential – if you can get to the data and act on it. We developed Hunk as a standalone software product to help organizations give broader user groups insight into their data assets without custom development, costly data modeling or lengthy batch processing iterations. By providing interactive data exploration, discovery and analytics, Hunk empowers users to derive actionable insights from this raw data in Hadoop.” Zettaset and Informatica partner on Hadoop.   Informatica (INFA) announced an OEM partnership agreement with Zettaset, to embed Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition within its Zettaset Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management solution. With this, Zettaset provides customers streamlined and simplified big data integration to move and integrate data as part of their Apache distribution-based Hadoop implementations regardless of data volume, variety and velocity. Future plans for the agreement include adding Informatica data quality functionality, including data profiling and cleansing, to Zettaset Orchestrator according to customer needs. “There is no other integration vendor in the market providing big data integration capabilities equivalent to Informatica’s,” said Jim Vogt, CEO of Zettaset. “Informatica is perfectly aligned with our focus on enterprise manageability, high availability and comprehensive security for Hadoop, while the Informatica platform approach provides us the flexibility to add data quality, social connections and other big data functionality going forward.” Hortonworks and NetApp expand strategic relationship. Hortonworks announced the expansion of its strategic relationship with NetApp by putting in place a reseller agreement, enabling NetApp to resell Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). At the engineering level, NetApp and Hortonworks are working together to create new storage solutions for Hadoop that integrate seamlessly with NetApp E-Series storage systems. The joint development efforts will further expand the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and offer enterprises more choices as NetApp storage systems now integrate with HDP. “As the Apache Hadoop ecosystem continues to mature, enterprises that require next-generation big data analytics functionality will need storage that is highly-available, cost-efficient and optimized for high-performance tasks,” said Brendon Howe, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, NetApp. “NetApp is committed to the continued innovation of creating an enterprise-class storage infrastructure for Hadoop-based solutions that is tailored to process data-intensive workloads and produce relevant business insights.” (Comment on this)
12:00p	AFCOM Broadens Data Center World With Focus on Strategy At the Spring Data Center World Conference, the 1,000-plus delegates got a chance to network with one another at the Mandalay Bay conference center in Las Vegas. (Photo: Josh Ater) AFCOM says it is working with industry leaders to expand the focus of the upcoming Data Center World conference in Orlando, with sessions focusing on long-term strategic planning as well as day-to-day operations. “This broadened focus on strategy allows Data Center World to provide the high-level educational tools needed for today’s Data Center Manager to effectively plan and manage the complex data center ecosystem,” said Tom Roberts, President of AFCOM and Chairman of Data Center World. “The emphasis on aligning the data center with business strategy will better equip our attendees with the tools required to effectively create and implement long-term strategy, a strategy that ultimately helps them be more effective each and every day.” Data Center World Fall is scheduled for Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 in Orlando, and will target data center executives and decision makers with new sessions on topics covering data center business models, staffing and development plans, risk assessment, finance for the data center manager, energy productivity, thermal management, and IT and facilities organizational convergence. New Track: Data Center Trends A brand new track on Data Center Trends will also be added to the conference covering Colocation, Data Center Automation, Big Data, Lease vs. Own, Real Estate, Software-Defined Data Centers, Cloud and Hybrids, and Sourcing and Negotiating. Helping direct the improved conference direction are members of AFCOM’s Data Center Institute, a “think tank” comprised of experienced data center managers, industry leaders and solution providers who examine issues and trends affecting data center operations. The group’s charter is to provide thought leadership and direction for the industry about data center related maters. “The topics that AFCOM has identified are important not only on a day-to-day level for data center managers, but also for executives and decision makers looking ahead to the rapidly changing landscape of the data center industry,” said Rick Sawyer, an executive at Hewlett-Packer and Data Center Institute board member. “Given the explosive growth this industry is seeing, it is important for an association such as AFCOM to reflect those changes in its well-attended conferences.” Signing up before July 26 earns a $200 discount. For more information on the conference or to register, go to the Data Center World web site. Information is also available via the conference’s feeds on Twitter (@datacenterworld) and Facebook. Data Center World is produced by AFCOM, the leading association supporting the educational and professional development needs of data center professionals. Established in 1980, AFCOM currently includes 3,500 data centers professionals and 40 chapters worldwide, and provides networking opportunities and education through its bi-annual Data Center World Conferences, magazines, regional chapters and industry alliances. (Comment on this)
1:00p	Teradata Announces Portfolio For Hadoop Teradata (TDC) announced its Portfolio for Hadoop, with open, flexible and comprehensive options to deploy and manage Apache Hadoop. The portfolio includes Hadoop-based product platforms, software, consulting services, training and customers support. Teradata’s innovations have made Hadoop easier to integrate into modern enterprise data architectures and enable more users to know more, and do more with data in Hadoop. “Teradata is now off and running as a trusted single source for all things Hadoop with many leading customers such as Dell, Inc., Otto Group, PT XL Axiata Tbk mobile telecommunications, Swisscom Schweiz AG, and Wells Fargo Bank,” said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs. “We built The Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop to support organizations struggling with Hadoop implementations by taking the complexity and cost out of deploying and managing the solutions.” For turn-key solutions Teradata offers two premium platforms: Teradata Appliance for Hadoop and Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance.  These premium-level platforms benefit from unique software features not available from other vendors that enhance Hadoop’s reliability, manageability, connectivity, and improve the ease of use. For engineering-led IT departments who prefer to build their own systems, but want the support of Teradata, two commodity platforms for Hadoop are available: Teradata Commodity Offering for Hadoop and Teradata Software Only for Hadoop. Hadoop Software Integration Teradata has also partnered with several innovative software vendors to provide even more security and enterprise integration for Hadoop as part of the enterprise data architecture. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) includes interfaces needed for deep integration with essential components of the modern data architecture like Teradata. The Informatica Platform is part of the Teradata Unified Data Architecture and it delivers data integration optimization and increased developer productivity for the data warehouse, discovery platform, and Hadoop.  The Protegrity Big Data Protector is bundled with the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop, allowing users to have file and field-level data security for sensitive data ranging from privacy to PCI.  Revelytix Loom provides a smarter Hadoop for the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop, including dynamic dataset management, automatically calculated data lineage for all transformations, and Activescan entity resolution, which automatically detects, parses, and profiles any new HDFS files. “Teradata and Hortonworks have extended their strategic partnership to allow Teradata to resell and offer support for Hortonworks Data Platform. Working together, we are simplifying the deployment of Apache Hadoop and enabling customers to leverage all their data to create substantial business value,” said Rob Bearden, chief executive officer, Hortonworks. “Now Teradata can offer the proven 100 percent open-source Hortonworks Data Platform, customer support, and direct access to the latest technologies coming from the Apache Hadoop community.” (Comment on this)
4:34p	Friday Funny: An Eye-Catching Fourth of July It’s Friday and time for a few laughs before the Independence Day holiday in the United States. We run our caption contest on Fridays, with cartoons drawn by Diane Alber, our favorite data center cartoonist! Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor. This week we present “An Eye-Catching Fourth of July.” Diane writes, I’m seeing a lot of themed colored data centers so why not one celebrating the 4th of July!” Enter your caption suggestion below. The caption contest works like this: We provide the cartoon and you, our readers, submit the captions. We then choose finalists and the readers vote for their favorite funniest suggestion. The winner will receive his or her caption in a signed print by Diane. Click to enlarge. (Comment on this)

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