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The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce, that’s the claim from Perforce.
The company makes this claim on the back of product releases that it says help teams achieve speed, quality, security and compliance at scale along the development lifecycle.
News this month sees Minneapolis-headquartered (Prince would have been proud) company announce its Hadoop Service Bundle, which takes the form of a new professional services and support offering from OpenLogic by Perforce.
According to Matthew Weier O’Phinney, senior product manager at Perforce, this new software offers enterprises a way to reduce escalating big data management costs by up to 60% by deploying an open source software-based big data stack and storing their data on-premises, in a public cloud, or a hybrid environment instead of in Cloudera’s Hadoop-based, public cloud platform.
“The Hadoop Service Bundle unlocks more options for enterprise organisations that want to own their big data infrastructure,” said Weier O’Phinney. “The Hadoop ecosystem has matured to the point where we can build a completely open source stack that is equivalent to the platform that Cloudera sells.”
In light of the fact that many Hadoop teams have invested in commercial, private cloud options to keep their most sensitive data secure, the Hadoop Service Bundle offers flexibility around where data is hosted.
“No one should be forced to migrate to the public cloud if they don’t want to,” said Weier O’Phinney.
Big data stack
Whereas the Cloudera Data Platform comes with a preset suite of software, the Hadoop Service Bundle allows teams to decide which tools and technologies to include in their big data stack based on their use case, potentially reducing deployment overhead.
“The Big Data landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years and the demand for more customisable, cost-effective solutions is what led us to develop the Hadoop Service Bundle,” said Rod Cope, chief technology officer at Perforce Software. “For organizations that want to avoid vendor lock-in and keep costs low by storing their data in-house, in an open source stack built to accommodate their business needs, the Hadoop Service Bundle will be an appealing alternative.”
Base installation
As part of the Hadoop Service Bundle, OpenLogic will oversee the base installation, data migration and reference installation of customers’ Hadoop instances.
For those organisations without the internal expertise required to fully manage a Hadoop implementation, technical support and administration are also included in the Hadoop Service Bundle.
