He also mentioned that as part of this new collaboration the product team at BlueData will be working together closely with Intel in areas including Hadoop and Spark.
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The involvement of Intel, which designs server platforms for majority of the world’s data centers, is important to quality and adoption of new technologies such as BlueData’s.
“This strategic collaboration with Intel will help advance BlueData’s mission of making it easy to deploy big data infrastructure”.
Intel is taking its latest step in the big data space through a partnership with BlueData, whose software is designed to enable organizations to run Hadoop and Spark in virtualized environments on-premises.
“Intel architecture provides a high-performance, secure, robust foundation for big data analytics”, said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (pictured).
Under the partnership, BlueData will optimize its software on Intel’s Xeon processors and architecture.
BlueData, provider of the leading infrastructure software platform for Big Data, today announced an oversubscribed $20 million Series C funding round. “The BlueData vision is bold, big, and unique”. “Together Intel and BlueData are focused on bringing Big Data into the mainstream and unlocking the value for our enterprise customers for faster time to insights with Big Data”, Michael Greene, vice president and general manager of system technologies and optimization at Intel, wrote in a post on the company blog. It delivers the agility of Hadoop-as-a-Service in an on-premises deployment model, with the enterprise-grade security and governance that IT teams require.
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“We believe BlueData’s technology innovations will transform the Big Data market”, said Nick Sturiale, managing partner at Ignition Partners. Less than a week ago the firm partnered with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to develop a big data platform that can help diagnose and treat individuals for cancer based on their genetic pre-dispositions. With BlueData, they can spin up virtual Hadoop or Spark clusters within minutes, providing data scientists with on-demand access to the applications, data and infrastructure they need. It’s Intel’s third investment in the company since 2012. BlueData, founded by a group of VMware alumni, has now raised a total of $39 million.
