HP Announces New Products, Services, and Developer Programs for Big Data

HP unveiled new products, services, and programs around data and analytics to build new products and experiences. In a press release, the company announced:

• A new release of HP Vertica, which will feature data streaming and advanced log file text search to power high-speed analytics on Internet of Things (IoT) data.
• Extensive support for and contributions to open source technologies, including optimized Hadoop performance, integration with the Apache Kafka distributed messaging system, and advancements in Distributed R predictive analytics.
• The HP Haven Startup Accelerator program, which provides early-stage companies with fast, affordable access to both HP Big Data and Application Delivery Management software and services.

A summary of the new features detailed in the press release is as follows:

• Data streaming analytics – Excavator will offer native support for the Apache Kafka open source distributed messaging system to enable organizations to quickly ingest and analyze high-speed streaming data, including Internet of Things, in near real-time.
• Advanced Machine Log Text Search – Excavator will enable organizations to collect and index large log file data sets generated by systems and business applications.
• HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop native file support – the new version of Vertica brings significant increase in performance on popular Hadoop formats like ORC and Parquet.
• HP Vertica Flex Zone Table Library – HP has open sourced its Flex Table “schema on-need” technology to the global developer community.
• Native Integration with Apache Spark – HP announced its future commitment to integrate Vertica with Apache Spark.
• The HP Haven Startup Accelerator, a new program designed to support and expand HP’s ecosystem of developers and innovators makes HP Big Data and Application Delivery Management software products accessible to early-stage companies.
• HP also announced an innovative framework of technology and proven best practices to accelerate the development of next-generation analytical applications.

Availability

Planned availability for new HP Haven Big Data offerings and services is set towards the end of 2015. All hardware platforms for Big Data are currently available in India.