UPDATED 11:37 EDT / JUNE 12 2013

HP’s HAVEn Big Data Platform but Faces Significant Challenges

At HP Discover 2013 this week in Las Vegas, HP has announced an interesting Big Data platform called HAVEn for Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, Enterprise Security, and the “number” of Big Data applications that can be built on it. Made up mostly of existing products, it promises to provide a unified framework, improving the ability of the products to connect and interoperate, writes Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert, “HP Unifies Big Data Assets in HAVEn Platform”. It includes more than 700 connectors to feed structured, multi-structured, and unstructured data, from internal data warehouses and machine-generated data to social and Web-based data and unstructured text, into the platform

HP has also announced HP Operations Analytics built on HAVEn that collects, stores, and analyzes IT events, incidents, performance metrics, application topology, and log data and provides real-time analytics to allow IT admins to troubleshoot infrastructure issues. And it has announced new services from its services organization to support customers building their own Big Data applications on the platform.

However, warns Kelly, HAVEn faces three challenges to success:

  1. Proving itself in the market with real-world installations,

  2. The major trend to move Big Data workloads out of the enterprise entirely and into the public Cloud, where much of the data resides, and,

  3. Creating compelling business-focused applications, an area where HP has less experience and must rely on BI and ISV partners.

Overall Kelly recommends that CIOs should include HAVEn when evaluating Big Data platforms. HP has made that easier with the free Vertical community edition, which allows users to analyze 1 Tbyte of data at no charge. Those who find HAVEn compelling should push HP to outline its strategy for developing applications to run on it.

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