Developers and partners interested in building cloud-native data applications to support analytics had to be pleased with the news out of the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, this week. The newly-announced Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0 will support faster deployment of containerized advanced analytics, making that a key part of its next-generation release.

“Hortonworks has made that the premier new feature of HDP 3.0 announced this week at the show,” said James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Day Two kickoff analysis at the Summit. “That very much harmonizes with where its partners are going with the containerization of artificial intelligence.”

Kobielus was joined at the conference by co-host Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), and they discussed the conversation shift from the DataWorks Summit earlier this year and how Hortonworks Inc. is preparing for an inevitable future in the public cloud.

Shift from governance to cloud

The emphasis on containers and AI represented a shift from the predominant themes coming out of the DataWorks Summit in Berlin, Germany, barely two months ago. At that gathering, Hortonworks’ big data governance tools for public, private and hybrid deployments were the major story in advance of the start of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation governing enterprise use of citizens’ information.

The new requirements surrounding GDPR did not become enforceable until May 25. “GDPR dominated the conversation because the new rules and regulations hadn’t taken effect,” Knight said. “Companies were sort of bracing for what life would be like after GDPR.”

Hortonworks’ future rests on the shift of its customers’ workloads to the public cloud, a trend the analysts see as inevitable. Despite market concerns surrounding Hadoop stocks, the company appears to be making the necessary investment to meet enterprise demand in the public cloud, as evidenced by the new features announced for HDP 3.0.

“Their customers will shift most of their workloads to public cloud environments for everything they are doing,” Kobielus said. “The cost that they’re incurring now to prepare their entire portfolio for that inevitable future is the right thing to do.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the DataWorks Summit.

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