by Angela Guess
Ted Samson of InfoWorld reports, “In an effort to secure a spot as the de facto virtualization provider for all things Hadoop, VMware today announced an open source project dubbed Serengeti that lets companies easily deploy and manage Hadoop distributions in virtual and cloud environments. The new project, along with new code contributions to the cloud platform and enhancements to the Spring for Apache Hadoop development platform, also speaks to VMware’s vision of providing the virtual glue between the cloud and big data.”
He continues, “The big picture here: Beyond making VSphere the must-have virtualization platform for Hadoop, VMware is aspiring to cash in on big data, a point made clear when the company acquired big data analytics startup Cetas earlier this year. VMware wants to make it easier for companies to use Hadoop as a big data platform across the board; Spring makes it easier for developers to create big data applications, which IT can more easily deploy via Serengeti onto a distributed, virtualized cloud infrastructure, which in turn means more business users can take advantage of those big data capabilities.”
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