by Angela Guess
Syncsort has announced that the company has partnered with Hortonworks to make Hadoop easier to use and thereby help maximize the value of Big Data. The article states that Syncsort’s “DMExpress® data integration software supports and is certified for Hortonworks Data Platform. The company also announced that it has officially joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), powered by Apache Hadoop, is a massively scalable open source platform for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. The certification of Syncsort® DMExpress on HDP makes Apache Hadoop easier to use and brings enterprise-class data integration technology to Hortonworks’ distribution. DMExpress is used by leading organizations worldwide to speed Big Data time-to-insight and reduce the total cost of ownership of Big Data warehousing and analytics environments.”
It continues, “Bringing the industry’s highest-performance, most scalable data integration software to the open source Apache Hadoop-based software platform delivers greater value to customers to help accelerate Hadoop adoption. DMExpress dramatically simplifies and speeds the integration and movement of Big Data between the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and enterprise systems. ‘Hortonworks Data Platform empowers enterprise-proven technology like Syncsort DMExpress with a comprehensive, next-generation data management infrastructure for enabling customers to glean new intelligence and derive greater business value from all types of data,’ said Mitch Ferguson, vice president of Business Development, Hortonworks.”
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