Big Data Partnership Announces Strategic Partnership with Hortonworks

Big Data Partnership, UK-based big data specialist solution provider, has announced strategic partnership with Hortonworks. Hortonworks has proven experience in deploying and supporting Hadoop in large-scale production environments. Whereas, Big Data Partnership has extensive industry and local market expertise, along with a core team of Apache Hadoop creators and committee members. Partnership among both the companies will mark a combination of their expertise and brings a new standard of training, certification and SI expertise to the European market.

With the deal, Big Data Partnership becomes the first Hortonworks certified training and System Integrator (SI) partner in the UK and Europe. The partnership will allow Big Data Partnership to deliver the Hortonworks Certified Apache Hadoop Developer and Administrator courses through private on-site training for enterprise customers.  Big Data Partnership is both a Systems Integrator and Training Delivery Partner of Hortonworks. Through the partnership, customers will be allowed to build and execute sophisticated enterprise-class 'Big Data' applications with the support of experts’ team.

Big Data Partnership is offering a combination of professional services and training to help enterprise clients unlock the value in complex data. The company has witnessed a gain in awareness and interest in Big Data leading to a rapid increase in the adoption of Hadoop platforms in the UK and Europe. Big Data Partnership has the ability to drive exciting results for its customers with the help of industry experts in big data technologies including the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and NoSQL databases

In a press release, Mike Merritt-Holmes, CEO and co-founder, Big Data Partnership, said, “The Hortonworks Certified Apache Hadoop Developer and Administrator courses stand out as unique through their development by the industry's foremost Hadoop experts including the original creators of Hadoop at Yahoo! and committee members. Big Data Partnership is delighted to be the first company to bring these outstanding courses to the European market, empowering customers with real-life actionable skills to develop, implement and administer cutting-edge Hadoop solutions."

Hortonworks was recently in news when Savvis,  a specialist in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, entered into partnership with Hortonworks to leverage Hadoop and provide cloud-based big data solutions for enterprises.