Hadoop

OpenStack is considered as the largest and most active open-source cloud computing project and has attracted a lot of support from vendors like Rackspace, Dell (News - Alert), HP, Cisco and VMware.

Recently, Hortonworks, a contributor to Apache Hadoop, Mirantis, the OpenStack systems integrator, and Red Hat (News - Alert), a provider of open-source solutions and the contributor to the most recent release of OpenStack, are contributing to OpenStack’s Project Savanna. These companies will focus primarily on contributing engineering resources to Project Savanna, originally developed as an OpenStack project by Mirantis. 

OpenStack is a platform for building and managing private, public and hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds with core software projects providing compute, storage and networking management services, and a shared identity service and dashboard.

Project Savanna will be developed under the OpenStack community guidelines to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack. Hadoop provides distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. The main objective of Project Savanna is to allow OpenStack users to easily provision and manage elastic Hadoop clusters to speed the development and deployment of cost-effective Hadoop on OpenStack.

 This collaboration will offer many advantages, including providing open source APIs and simpler transitions when moving Hadoop workloads between public and private clouds.

Bob Page, vice president, Products, Hortonworks, said, “By committing efforts to simplify the deployment and management of Hadoop on OpenStack through linkage with Ambari, we believe we can meaningfully accelerate the time to production for organizations building out new Hadoop projects.”

Ilya Elterman, senior director of Cloud Services at Mirantis, said in a statement, “This is a major advancement for the open source community and we are happy to collaborate with Hortonworks and Red Hat.”