New Syncsort Big Data Software Removes Major Barriers to Mainstream Apache Hadoop Adoption

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data software, today announced the biggest, most comprehensive release of its award-winning data integration product suite, including new technology that makes it easier for customers to adopt Apache Hadoop.

This release introduces a design approach that will support multiple compute frameworks, de-coupling the user experience from the underlying Hadoop processing paradigms, including MapReduce, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez. The unique architectural approach will "future-proof" the process of collecting, blending, transforming, and distributing data, providing a consistent user experience while still taking advantage of the powerful native performance of the rapidly evolving compute frameworks that run on Hadoop.

"Our research shows that the most common workloads being shifted to Hadoop are large-scale data transformations," said Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor, the Wikibon Project. "Syncsort continues to make waves in the Big Data ecosystem by innovating easier, more effective ways to create these transformations in Hadoop and to move expensive enterprise data warehouse and mainframe workloads across emerging Hadoop frameworks."

The release includes a new "Intelligent Execution Layer" that allows users to visually design data transformations once and then run them anywhere – across Hadoop, Linux, Windows, or Unix, on premise or the cloud – while maintaining the performance of a native implementation. The architecture includes dozens of special-purpose algorithms and an advanced optimizer that automatically selects the ideal execution path to process jobs based on the underlying compute frameworks available, the characteristics of the data set, and Hadoop cluster conditions.

"Many organizations are looking to liberate their legacy data and budgets by shifting workloads from enterprise data warehouses and mainframes into Hadoop, but they are challenged by the complexities of the rapidly-improving Hadoop stack," said Tendu Yogurtcu, General Manager of Syncsort's Big Data business. "This new release makes it extremely easy to shift sophisticated data flows to Hadoop and to create new data transformations, taking advantage of the most powerful Hadoop-based compute paradigms as they evolve."

Highlights of the new release include the ability for users to:

• Avoid application obsolescence by deploying and running the same highly efficient data flows on or off of Hadoop, on-premise, or in the cloud
• Isolate the transformation logic from the underlying complexities of Hadoop using a new Intelligent Execution Layer that will allow Syncsort to deliver native support for multiple compute frameworks such as Apache Spark and Tez
• Leverage best-in-class, one-step data ingestion capabilities for Hadoop – ingesting data directly into Big Data formats such as Avro and Parquet without the need for staging
• Load Apache Spark engines with legacy mainframe data sets, including VSAM and binary sequential files with COBOL copybook metadata – all via a new, Cloudera certified, Apache Spark mainframe connector from Syncsort
• Support governance initiatives with advanced metadata management and data lineage, including HCatalog support
• Utilize best-in-class data discovery, analysis and visualization with the new Syncsort QlikView QVX Connector and the Tableau Data Extract Connector
• Achieve high performance parallel data loads to Hive, Vertica, and Greenplum
• Support NoSQL data stores such as Apache Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB
• Monitor and manage Apache Hadoop transformations with customized dashboards based on operational metadata and RESTful APIs shipped in Docker containers

The new release will be generally available this month.

For more information on our new release and technology, click here or visit us at booth 923 at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose next week. To register for an educational webcast on the new release, click, here.

About Syncsort

Syncsort provides enterprise software that allows organizations to collect, integrate, sort and distribute more data in less time, with fewer resources and lower costs.  Thousands of customers in more than 85 countries, including 87 of the Fortune 100 companies, use our fast and secure software to optimize and offload data processing workloads. Powering over 50% of the world's mainframes, Syncsort software provides specialized solutions spanning "Big Iron to Big Data," including next gen analytical platforms such as Hadoop, cloud, and Splunk. For more than 40 years customers have turned to Syncsort's software and expertise to dramatically improve performance of their data processing environments, while reducing hardware and labor costs.  Experience Syncsort at http://www.syncsort.com/en/Home.

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