Appistry, which announced alliances with Hadoop ecosystem vendors Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga, encourages developers to choose Appistry CloudIQ Storage as a robust file system for their enterprise-grade Hadoop deployments.Appistry on June 29 "announced strategic alliances with leading Hadoop ecosystem vendors Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga," the company said in a news release.
With the announcement, made at the Hadoop Summit on June 29, "Without any changes to their applications, users of the Concurrent, Datameer and Kitenga products can choose Appistry CloudIQ Storage as a more robust file system for their enterprise-grade Hadoop deployments. CloudIQ Storage is fully decentralized and offers higher availability and greater reliability than HDFS [Hadoop Distributed File System], whose 'NameNode' is a single point of failure and network bottleneck," said Sam Charrington, vice president of products for Appistry.
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