Big Data Gets a Boost from Splunk and Hortonworks Strategic Alliance
(World News Science)

SAN FRANCISCO - May 23, 2013 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, a leading contributor to ApacheTM Hadoop®, today announced a strategic alliance to enable organizations to gain operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop. The alliance ensures that organizations can take advantage of Splunk® Enterprise and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) utilizing Splunk Hadoop Connect, which easily and reliably moves data...