HP doubles down on big data platform with new products

BANGALORE: Software and HP has unveiled a series of new products, services, and programs designed to help organizations leverage data and analytics to build new products and experiences.

The company releases HP Vertica, which will feature data streaming and advanced log file text search to power analytics on Internet of Things (IoT). 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 access to both HP Big Data and Application Delivery Management software and services.

"Developers are the new heroes of the idea economy,” said Vivek Ratna, Country Director, Big Data Platform, HP.

“HP is uniquely positioned to help businesses and developers thrive in this new world. Through our Haven and Haven OnDemand platforms, we are empowering these heroes to transform their business through data, by allowing them to harness the value of all forms of information, rapidly connect and apply open source, and quickly access the tools they need to build winning businesses,” he added.

HP also released a series of innovations that enable organisations to combine the innovation of open source with the enterprise-scale security of HP's Big Data platform.

These include HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop native file support - the new version of Vertica which brings a “significant increase” in performance on Hadoop formats like ORC and Parquet.

Specifically, HP worked collaboratively with Hortonworks to develop a new high-performance access layer that enables SQL queries to run directly on ORC files, resulting in a 5x increase in execution times.