Hortonworks

• General manager: Rob Birden

Hortonworks is a supplier of platforms of open-source who develops, distributes and supports ApacheHadoop — the platform created especially for corporate deployments. Hortonworks manages a core of the system and offers clients business and critical services which allow them conveniently and to safely unroll the Hadoop environments of any scale. The Hortonworks Data Platform distribution kit provides the platform of the enterprise level, modern architecture of data and also is supported by key technology partners. Besides, Hortonworks offers unique programs of service, training and certification.

History

2018: Merge to Cloudera

Cloudera and Hortonworks company — two large companies competing in the market of Big Data — announced the future merge, SiliconAngle reported on October 3, 2018. Aggregate turnover of the structure formed as a result of the transaction will be about $720 million a year, and its future cost is estimated at $5.2 billion.

Two large solution providers in the field of Big Data integrate in one company

Merge moves as the transaction of equal partners, however the cost and turnovers of Cloudera are slightly higher, than at Hortonworks so the reached agreement looks as absorption rather. Under control of shareholders of Cloudera there will be 60% of securities of both companies, shareholders have Hortonworks — 40%.

According to the chief executive of Cloudera Tom Reilly, scales of the united company will allow it to accelerate innovations. He also noted that business approaches of both companies are strategically complementary.

Having connected investments of Hortonworks into end-to-end data management and investments of Cloudera into data warehouses and machine learning, we industry-first will be able to provide the full-band cloud offers focused on the corporate sector from analytics on boundary devices to artificial intelligence — Rilli said.

The head of Cloudera also noted that the united company seriously is interested in the potential market of Internet of Things: IoT-devices make enormous amounts of data so interest in this sphere from the companies which are engaged in Big Data, we will quite explain.

Third-party analysts specify that merge of Cloudera and Hortonworks is dictated by market conditions. Both companies try to receive commercial benefit, creating and operating different solutions based on an open architecture of Hadoop. Opposition between them was tough and far not so profitable as they would like. On the other hand, after entry into the exchange, both companies showed a two-place gain of income. Hortonworks in August, 2018 announced about 40% growth (up to $86.3 million), Cloudera in the report for the second quarter 2018 designated a gain in 23% (to $110.3 million).

Sign of a maturity of the market are processes of consolidation and increase in number of transactions M&A, occurring on it — Roman Malyshev, the marketing director of Software product company considers. — Merge of Cloudera and Hortonworks shows at the same time on growth of the competition in the field of Big Data and its increasing dynamism. The integrating companies competed with very large players, such as Amazon, and it is obvious that it will be simpler to larger structure to maintain an impact.

Within three next years the current clients of both companies — and them about 2.5 thousand — will have an opportunity to continue to use their solutions in an invariable format, but even before the termination of this term the release of the new solutions combining developments of both companies is promised.^[1]

2014: Strategic partnership with HP

HP and Hortonworks announced in August, 2014 the beginning of strategic partnership which purpose — to develop the solutions capable to satisfy requirements of corporate clients for technologies of Big Data. The joint project will allow to accelerate evolution of Enterprise Apache Hadoop thanks to deep integration of platforms of the Big Data Hortonworks Data Platform and HP HAVEn. Besides, HP invests 50 million US dollars in Hortonworks.

HP and Hortonworks are going to integrate the strategy of development and to deepen cooperation in the field of marketing that will help clients of HP to unroll Hortonworks Data Platform as the HP HAVEn Hadoop-component. At last, HP is going to certify HP Vertica on compliance to requirements of Apache Hadoop YARN — development center of architecture Hadoop 2.0.

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