Hadoop Innovation Centre for EMC APJ set in India

BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC Corporation announced the launch of its Hadoop Innovation Centre in the APJ region, located within EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) at Bengaluru. A first of its kind in the industry as it calls it, the Centre will showcase solutions with Cloudera, Hortonworks and Pivotal.

Further EMC says, it will provide opportunities to ISVs to create and test solutions and to application vendors like Splunk to explore/create vertical stacks.

The company also announced the Federation Business Data Lake which it tells, includes storage and Big Data analytics technologies from EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, and VMware to help customers leverage the new world of Big Data, thereby clearing the path for new insights and disruptive differentiation.

Sarv Saravanan, SVP and GM, APJ Centers of Excellence added, “EMC Centers of Excellence in APJ have pioneered many new initiatives to redefine innovation and engineering, and I’m delighted that we are opening Hadoop Innovation Centre at the COE in Bangalore as a mark of its growing role. We are at the forefront of bringing together an ecosystem of Developers, ISVs and Partners to explore, collaborate and harness third platform technologies. This is also reinforcement of our ongoing commitment to enable customers on their digital transformation journey.”