John Kreisa, Hortonworks. at Red Hat Summit 2014 with John Furrier and Stu Miniman
@thecube
#RHSummit
Red Hat has long been lauded for their approach of focusing on and building a sound infrastructure upon which all of their subsequent innovations were built. Their open source approach was and continues to be fairly unique, leading many tech pundits to claim their model was a one-off success. Most people take it as a statement of fact that there will never be another Red Hat of anything. However, John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, posits that Hortonworks, with their similar DNA being applied in the data world, is, in fact, the Red Hat of Hadoop. "The discipline required," he says, "really is a long game."
Furrier, along with co-host Jeff Kelly, welcomed John Kreisa, Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Hortonworks, to a special session of theCUBE at this week's Red Hat Summit.
Bringing up Intel's recent strategic investment in Cloudera, Furrier claimed this is viewed as a significant validation for the Big Data space. "That's big news," he said. "That's got everyone's attention. It takes Hadoop to the top of the front page of the business press." Intel commented in earlier interview on @theCUBE that despite the Cloudera announcement, Intel intends to drive innovation to other Hadoop distro providers upstream. This is important because it telegraphs that Intel doesn't want to alienate competitors in the opensource ecosystem.
Furrier then asked Kreisa to address the Cloudera news and how it impacts Hortonworks and relates to other conversations happening at this week's summit. Agreeing with Furrier's contention, Kreisa said, "It's a good validation for the market, in general. That the large vendors continue to invest in the community, much like a lot of the partnerships that we form, it's making sure there is investment at various levels, whether it's engineering or elsewhere."
He sees the Intel/Cloudera announcement as being important for the continued drive of the technology to the next generation and moving it steadily forward to the enterprise. "You've got to be the company that can really innovate on that technology," said Kreisa.
For more on Intel's perspective, be sure to watch an earlier interview on theCUBE with Doug Fisher, who speaks in detail on his company's investment in Cloudera. {see editors note below}
Strategic Partnerships
Moving onto his next line of questions, Furrier noted, "You've been very successful with your partnerships. Talk about the ecosystem and specifically your relationship with Red Hat."
With a year's experience working with OpenStack, Kreisa said, "First of all, it's a great partnership. Integrating OpenStack with Hortonworks' open source platform in order to allow Hadoop to be deployed in that infrastructure [has been key]." He continued, "There is a particular simpatico nature to the way that Red Hat works with communities and the way that we work with communities."
Within those communities, Hortonworks, like Red Hat, identifies communities upstream that are working on projects that perhaps aren't being addressed elsewhere, and curates them downstream and into development. Furrier asked Kreisa to explain the concept of upstream to those perhaps not familiar with the term.
"There are open source projects," Kreisa began, "that a very broad community of developers are working on. So, when I say upstream, I mean perhaps they are working in some Apache project that someone is developing and contributing code to."
With a single project receiving input from as many as thousands of developers, that is what is considered to be upstream. Kreisa further explained that "what Hortonworks does is... we work in that upstream notion and then curate that down and take the most stable versions of each of those open source projects from the other upstreams. We test and integrate that together and then apply a very detailed and rigorous level of testing and put it out there as a platform."
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John Kreisa, Hortonworks. at Red Hat Summit 2014 with John Furrier and Stu Miniman
@thecube
#RHSummit
Red Hat has long been lauded for their approach of focusing on and building a sound infrastructure upon which all of their subsequent innovations were built. Their open source approach was and continues to be fairly unique, leading many tech pundits to claim their model was a one-off success. Most people take it as a statement of fact that there will never be another Red Hat of anything. However, John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, posits that Hortonworks, with their similar DNA being applied in the data world, is, in fact, the Red Hat of Hadoop. "The discipline required," he says, "really is a long game."
Furrier, along with co-host Jeff Kelly, welcomed John Kreisa, Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Hortonworks, to a special session of theCUBE at this week's Red Hat Summit.
Bringing up Intel's recent strategic investment in Cloudera, Furrier claimed this is viewed as a significant validation for the Big Data space. "That's big news," he said. "That's got everyone's attention. It takes Hadoop to the top of the front page of the business press." Intel commented in earlier interview on @theCUBE that despite the Cloudera announcement, Intel intends to drive innovation to other Hadoop distro providers upstream. This is important because it telegraphs that Intel doesn't want to alienate competitors in the opensource ecosystem.
Furrier then asked Kreisa to address the Cloudera news and how it impacts Hortonworks and relates to other conversations happening at this week's summit. Agreeing with Furrier's contention, Kreisa said, "It's a good validation for the market, in general. That the large vendors continue to invest in the community, much like a lot of the partnerships that we form, it's making sure there is investment at various levels, whether it's engineering or elsewhere."
He sees the Intel/Cloudera announcement as being important for the continued drive of the technology to the next generation and moving it steadily forward to the enterprise. "You've got to be the company that can really innovate on that technology," said Kreisa.
For more on Intel's perspective, be sure to watch an earlier interview on theCUBE with Doug Fisher, who speaks in detail on his company's investment in Cloudera. {see editors note below}
Strategic Partnerships
Moving onto his next line of questions, Furrier noted, "You've been very successful with your partnerships. Talk about the ecosystem and specifically your relationship with Red Hat."
With a year's experience working with OpenStack, Kreisa said, "First of all, it's a great partnership. Integrating OpenStack with Hortonworks' open source platform in order to allow Hadoop to be deployed in that infrastructure [has been key]." He continued, "There is a particular simpatico nature to the way that Red Hat works with communities and the way that we work with communities."
Within those communities, Hortonworks, like Red Hat, identifies communities upstream that are working on projects that perhaps aren't being addressed elsewhere, and curates them downstream and into development. Furrier asked Kreisa to explain the concept of upstream to those perhaps not familiar with the term.
"There are open source projects," Kreisa began, "that a very broad community of developers are working on. So, when I say upstream, I mean perhaps they are working in some Apache project that someone is developing and contributing code to."
With a single project receiving input from as many as thousands of developers, that is what is considered to be upstream. Kreisa further explained that "what Hortonworks does is... we work in that upstream notion and then curate that down and take the most stable versions of each of those open source projects from the other upstreams. We test and integrate that together and then apply a very detailed and rigorous level of testing and put it out there as a platform."
