John Kreisa, VP of Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks and Greg Kleinman, Red Hat director of strategy for storage and big data join Jeff Frick in theCUBE at the 2014 Strata Conference. Red Hat and Hortonworks have partnered to make it easier to run Hortonwork’s Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) with Red Hat’s JBoss set of middleware, and other Red Hat enterprise software. The discussants review the implications of this partnership and future directions for Hortonworks and Red Hat.

Both Kreisa and Kleinman are excited to bring Hadoop into the enterprise. This partnership, they believe, appeals to a spectrum of users including various analysts, data scientists and big data architects.

Frick asks how this new partnership makes life easier for existing Hortonworks and Red Hat clients. Kreisa believes that this partnership enhances engineering aspects, making it easier for all the JBoss developers to create new applications. He adds, “That engineering application will make it easier for them to adopt that new technology.” The JBoss suite has undergone certification for the Hortonworks data platform.

According to Kleinman, there are “more traditional sql databases that bring the data up a level and then allow developers to write applications to develop across all those data sets to a new set of applications that they can now write.” Kleinman states that an open jdk allows developers to develop applications that can be deployed in various environments including cloud and virtual. In essence, the technology allows enterprises to harness the greatness of Amazon technology inside their own firewalls. These offerings provide “a very elastic infrastructure to run Hadoop on,” adds Kleinman.

Frick asks what the partnership suggests about the maturation of Hadoop and big data in the enterprise. Kleinman believes the field is maturing noting that “we’re both joining forces in response to our customers. [They] come to both of us saying we want to move this into the mainstream and don’t want to be in the silo anymore.” Kleinman is also concerned with bringing infrastructure to the cloud because most clients want to bring Hadoop in as opposed to having it as an island.

The segment concludes with Kreisa and Kleinman sharing their big takeaways from the partnership and the conference. Kreisa says: “Hadoop is ready for the enterprise to adopt and be put into production.” Kleinman sums up the future in three sentences: “Go faster. Spend less. Do more.”