UPDATED 04:13 EDT / SEPTEMBER 02 2015

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Hortonworks brings Hadoop to the Land of the Rising Sun

Hortonworks Inc. is plotting a big expansion into Asia through a team up with Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp., that will see them work together to distribute the Big Data processing platform throughout Japan and other Asian markets.

Brian Burns, Hortonworks’ Regional Vice President for North Asia, said the new partnership was timely because demand for Big Data technologies is rapidly increasing in Asia’s advanced digital economies. He added that NEC is one of the leading IT and networking hardware providers in the region, and a natural partner for Hortonworks as it looks to help Asian firms expand their Big Data initiatives.

The deal will see NEC become a reseller of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and the company’s support services from October. This means NEC’s customers will be able to take advantage of Hortonworks’ Hadoop platform as a complementary component of their data infrastructures, enabling them to create a broad range of new applications and enrich existing ones with additional data sources.

NEC already offers a number of Big Data analytics tools that it integrates with its server and storage hardware, including predictive analytics and data visualization solutions.

As part of the deal, NEC customers will be able to choose from a variety of license options, so they can select the best subscription to suit their batch, interactive and real-time processing deployment needs.

“Under this collaboration with Hortonworks, NEC will provide our customers with opportunities to create new value from big data through the combination of our unique analysis technology, server and storage products and Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop,” said Tomoyasu Nishimura, general manager of NEC’s IT platform division.

Hortonworks’ Burns said the company has seen interest in its platform from a broad range of industries looking to optimize their data centers and take advanatge of the new analytic applications it offers.

“Our new partnership helps speed the adoption of Apache Hadoop in Japan and Asian countries by enabling NEC to resell Hortonworks industry leading support services combined with their trusted deliver expertise,” Burns said.

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