Hortonworks, Inc. has acquired SequenceIQ, Inc., an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for Hadoop, for an undisclosed price.

Based in Budapest, Hungary, SequenceIQ gives organizations the ability to deploy secure and elastic Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) clusters in a consistent manner across the entire analytics application lifecycle.

The service is said to be easy to set up and allows customers to launch HDP into major cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack. SequenceIQ optimizes the deployments through the use of policy-based autoscaling that expands and contracts clusters based on actual usage numbers.

Founded in February 2014, Sequence IQ’s product offering includes Cloudbreak, an elastic and cloud agnostic deployment solution for HDP clusters, and Periscope, a service that provides policy-based autoscaling for multi-tenant HDP clusters. The company is also a contributor to Apache Software Foundation projects.

“This acquisition enriches our leadership position by providing technology that automates the launching of elastic Hadoop clusters with policy-based auto-scaling on the major cloud infrastructure platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenStack, as well as platforms that support Docker containers” Hortonworks’ Vice President of Product Management Tim Hall said in a post on the Hortonworks blog.

“Put simply, we now provide our customers and partners with both the broadest set of deployment choices for Hadoop and quickest and easiest automation steps.”

Tiffany Wissner, senior director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Data Platform, explained in a separate statement the benefits of the acquisition, saying “Enabling flexible and rapid deployment of Apache Hadoop to leading cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure solves an important big data business requirement for the enterprise… The SequenceIQ technology enables quick and easy cloud deployments for operators on both Windows and Linux virtual machines, allowing them to take advantage of scale-out cloud services like HDInsight, Azure ML and PowerBI.”

Hortonworks has had a busy year after its IPO back in December 2014 saw it achieve a valuation of $1 billion. The company entered a Hadoop alliance with Pivotal Software, Inc. in February; however, its first set of post-IPO financials later the same month disappointed, with the company reporting a non-GAAP net loss of $2.19 per share for the fourth quarter of 2014.

Hortonworks said that it will immediately begin incorporating SequenceIQ technology into HDP with an aim to eventually transition the technology to the Apache Software Foundation.

The transaction is set to close in the second quarter.

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