SANTA CLARA, Calif., and NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ( #Strata + #Hadoop World) –#Hortonworks, Inc.® (NASDAQ: HDP) today announced updates to the #Microsoft #Azure #HDInsight Hadoop Cloud solution. As part of its collaboration with Microsoft, these updates will allow customers to achieve big data query speeds that approach data warehousing performance, provide a highly secure Hadoop solution in the cloud, and allow for an easier experience for administrators to spin up third party ISV applications. HDInsight in Azure has emerged as a leading option for today's modern organizations as they embrace a cloud-first approach to Big Data workloads. Customers have already experienced key benefits, as they take advantage of flexible connected data architectures to deliver real-time insights and positive business outcomes. By embracing Azure HDInsight, which delivers Apache™ Hadoop® and Apache Spark™ powered by Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®), organizations can future-proof their connected data architectures with a solution that is easy to manage and quick to deploy. Teaming with Microsoft, Hortonworks has pioneered cloud solutions for over four years, and has seen great customer traction as organizations have turned towards HDInsight to help power their data-centric operations. Connected Data Architecture Cloud has become an important aspect of today's Big Data environments and is expected to grow in importance in the coming years. The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report calls out that "enterprises of all types and sizes are increasingly embracing the cloud as an important catapult for their business technology agenda." Microsoft received the highest score in the current offering and strategy categories in this report. A connected data architecture enables organizations to harness the agility and elasticity of the cloud to power new workloads and analytic applications, while also providing the always-on security and governance services needed for today's enterprise. With connected data architectures, organizations are able to combine data-in-motion and data-at-rest to deliver actionable insights, whether the data resides in the data center or in the cloud. This flexibility is a requirement for many of today's modern data applications. Updates to HDInsight A key area of focus for Hortonworks is to enable organizations to rapidly adopt Hadoop by delivering an enterprise-grade managed service and making it easier for users. This has been a continued focus reflected in Azure HDInsight, which has the highest service level agreement amongst Cloud Hadoop options with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. It also has the highest levels of customer support backed by Microsoft and Hortonworks, and a highly productive experience for developers and data scientists with Microsoft Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Jupyter notebook integration. As part of Strata, Hortonworks, along with innovations being delivered by Microsoft, is furthering leadership in these categories by announcing the availability of HDInsight running Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5. Hortonworks has become the first cloud Hadoop solution to provide Apache Hive using LLAP to reach sub-second querying on big data, and the first to provide Azure Active Directory and Apache Ranger integration, providing customers with a more secure environment for doing Cloud Hadoop. Hortonworks is also enabling easier experiences for end-users with Apache Zeppelin notebooks integration, and point-and-click integration with third party ISV vendors. In addition:
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