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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Hortonworks

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  1. Nutanix Joins Hortonworks Certified Technology Partner Program

    Nutanix joined the Hortonworks Certified Technology Partner Program in June 2013, validating that Nutanix's NDFS could run certified HDP (Hortonworks Data Platform) workloads. A business development milestone for Nutanix's Hadoop positioning.

  2. Get Started: Ambari for Provisioning, Managing and Monitoring Hadoop

    Hortonworks' getting-started guide for Apache Ambari — the web-based Hadoop cluster provisioning and monitoring tool that aimed to make Hadoop operations accessible without deep Linux/Hadoop expertise. An important piece of 2013 Hadoop ecosystem tooling.

  3. Best Practices for Virtualizing Hadoop

    Hadoop Summit presentation on best practices for running Hadoop on VMware HVE (Hadoop Virtualization Extensions) with Hortonworks HDP — addressing the core tension between virtualization flexibility and Hadoop's data locality requirements.

  4. Big Data: Hadoop Distributions Compared

    Comparison of the main commercial Hadoop distributions in 2013 — Cloudera CDH, Hortonworks HDP, and MapR — when the market was consolidating around a handful of vendors each taking different bets on what enterprises needed.

  5. Proprietary Hadoop Is a Losing Strategy

    ReadWrite's 2013 argument that commercial Hadoop vendors who added proprietary lock-in would lose to those who contributed everything upstream — a prescient thesis that proved partly right, partly wrong over the following decade.

  6. Hortonworks Joins OpenStack Foundation

    Hortonworks joining the OpenStack Foundation in early 2013 — a sign that the big data and cloud infrastructure worlds were converging. The tweet called 'virtualized Hadoop' the future, which captures exactly the direction that HDP-on-OpenStack was heading.

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