MetaScale and Hortonworks Partner to Help Traditional Enterprises Move Beyond Hadoop Experiments

MetaScale, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings

and best-in-class provider of managed services for Apache Hadoop, today announced a strategic partnership with Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, that will allow enterprises across an array of industries to manage and analyze big data with far greater efficiency and effectiveness than ever before. The partnership is aimed at fostering case-specific end-to-end solutions that leverage Apache Hadoop's ability to reduce the intricacies and performance bottlenecks associated with data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL). These solutions include reducing or even alleviating mainframe capacity constraints and costs, as well as reducing overall business intelligence and data warehousing costs. The end result is a foundation for big data analytics minus the time, capital and complexity required to build one's own system – all good news for enterprises associated with industries such as financial services, healthcare, media, transportation and manufacturing, to name just a few. MetaScale specializes in implementing Apache Hadoop solutions for those enterprises that want to exploit big data without breaking the bank, while reducing ETL or mainframe costs and meeting processing windows. As