Hitachi Vantara Launches Pentaho 8.0 With Real-Time Data Processing to Fast-Track Digital Insights for Enterprise Customers

Singapore – October
27, 2017 — From its
PentahoWorld 2017 user conference, Hitachi
Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., today unveiled
the next generation of its Pentaho data integration and
analytics platform software. Pentaho 8.0 is enhanced and
provides support for Spark and Kafka to improve data and stream processing,
plus the ability to easily match compute resources with business demand in real
time. The new release is designed to help Hitachi’s customers extract greater
value from their data to gain a competitive advantage and accelerate their
digital transformation journeys.

According to
independent research firm IDC, the global datasphere will grow to 163 zetabytes
by 2025 – 10 times faster than the amount of data generated in 2016. The firm
also forecasts that more than a quarter of that data will be real-time in
nature, with IoT data making up more than 95-percent of it.[1]

With its Pentaho 8.0 release, Hitachi Vantara helps customers
to better prepare their businesses to address this real-time data deluge by
optimizing and modernizing their data analytics pipelines and improving the
productivity of their existing teams. New enhancements to the Pentaho 8.0
platform allow users to:

·  Improve Connectivity to Streaming Data
Sources: With data moving faster, it’s critical to
process it as it happens and react immediately if necessary. New capabilities
in Pentaho 8.0 include:

o Stream processing with Spark: Pentaho 8.0 now fully enables stream data
ingestion and processing using its native engine or Spark. This adds to
existing Spark integration with SQL, MLlib and Pentaho’s adaptive execution
layer.

o Connect to Kafka Streams: Kafka is a very popular publish/subscribe
messaging system that handles large data volumes that are common in today’s big
data and IoT environments. Pentaho 8.0 now enables real-time processing with specialized
steps that connect Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) to Kafka.

o Big data security with Knox: Building on its existing enterprise-level
security for Cloudera and Hortonworks, Pentaho 8.0 now adds support for the
Knox Gateway used for authenticating users to Hadoop services.

·  Optimize Processing Resources: Every organization has constrained data
processing resources that it wants to use intelligently, guaranteeing high
availability even when demand for computation resources are high. To support
this, Pentaho 8.0 provides:

o Worker nodes to scale out enterprise workloads: IT managers can now easily bring up
additional nodes and spread simultaneous workloads across all available
computation resources to match capacity with demand. This matching provides
elasticity and portability between cloud and on-premises environments resulting
in faster and more efficient processing for end users.

o Adaptive execution enhancements: First introduced in Pentaho 7.1, Pentaho’s
adaptive execution allows users to match workloads with the most appropriate
processing engine, without having to rewrite any data integration logic. Now,
Pentaho 8.0 makes adaptive execution easier to set up, use and secure. The
functionality is also now available on Hortonworks.

o Native support for Avro and Parquet: Pentaho 8.0 makes it easy to read and write
to these popular big data file formats and process with Spark using Pentaho’s
visual editing tools.

·  Boost Team Productivity: Pentaho 8.0 also comes with several new
features to help increase productivity across the data pipeline. These include
granular filters for preparing data, improved repository usability and easier
application auditing.

“On the path to digital transformation,
enterprises must fully exploit all the data available to them. This requires
connecting traditional data silos and integrating their operational and
information technologies to build modern analytics data pipelines that can
accommodate a more connected, open and fluid world of data,” said Donna Prlich,
chief product officer for Pentaho software at Hitachi Vantara. “Pentaho 8.0
provides enterprise scale and faster processing in anticipation of future data
challenges to better support Hitachi’s customers on their digital journeys.”

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·  Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho 8.0 software will be
generally available in November. To learn more, visit https://www.pentaho.com/product/version-8-0.

·  Learn what’s new in Pentaho 8.0. Register for
the webinar at http://events.pentaho.com/8.0-Launch-2017.html.

·  Tune in to the CUBE at PentahoWorld 2017.
Watch the mainstage and live interviews with Hitachi Vantara customers and
executives at http://siliconangle.tv/pentaho-world-2017/.

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hitachi, Ltd., helps data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data
to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and
society. We combine technology, intellectual property and industry knowledge to
deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers’
experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only
Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep
information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain expertise.
We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to meaningful outcomes.
Visit us at www.HitachiVantara.com.

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