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Date:       2013-10-16 12:01:33
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Foundation of next-generation Open Source Big Data Cloud computing platform runs \
multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently \
leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed.

Forest Hill, MD –16 October 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the \
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects \
and initiatives, today announced Apache™ Hadoop™ 2, the latest version of the \
Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

A foundation of Cloud computing and at the epicenter of "big data" solutions, Apache \
Hadoop enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of \
nodes and exabytes of data. Hadoop enables organizations to more efficiently and \
cost-effectively store, process, manage and analyze the growing volumes of data being \
created and collected every day. Apache Hadoop connects thousands of servers to \
process and analyze data at supercomputing speed.

The project's latest release marks a major milestone more than four years in the \
making, and has achieved the level of stability and enterprise-readiness to earn the \
General Availability designation.  

"With the release of stable Hadoop 2, the community celebrates not only an iteration \
of the software, but an inflection point in the project's development. We believe \
this platform is capable of supporting new applications and research in large-scale, \
commodity computing," said Apache Hadoop Vice President Chris Douglas. "The Apache \
Software Foundation creates the conditions for innovative, community-driven \
technology like Hadoop to evolve. When that process converges, the result is \
inspiring."

"Hadoop 2 marks a major evolution of the open source project that has been built \
collectively by passionate and dedicated developers and committers in the Apache \
community who are committed to bringing greater usability and stability to the data \
platform," said Arun C. Murthy, release manager of Apache Hadoop 2 and Founder of \
Hortonworks Inc. "It has been an honor and pleasure to work with the community and a \
personal thrill to see our four years of work on YARN finally coming to fruition in \
the GA of Hadoop 2.   Hadoop is truly becoming a cornerstone of the modern data \
architecture by enabling organizations to leverage the value of all their data, \
including capturing net-new data types, to drive innovative new services and \
applications."

"What started out a few years ago as a scalable batch processing system for Java \
programmers has now emerged as the kernel of the operating system for big data," said \
original Hadoop creator and ASF Board member Doug Cutting. "Over a dozen Apache \
projects integrate with Hadoop, with ten more in the Apache Incubator poised to soon \
join their ranks."

Dubbed a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century" and named "Innovation of the Year" by \
the 2011 Media Guardian Innovation Awards, Apache Hadoop is widely deployed at \
enterprise organizations around the globe, including industry leaders from across the \
Internet and social networking landscape such as Amazon Web Services, AOL, Apple, \
eBay, Facebook, foursquare, HP, LinkedIn, Netflix, The New York Times, Rackspace, and \
Twitter. Other technology leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Teradata, SAP have \
integrated Apache Hadoop into their offerings. Yahoo!, an early pioneer, hosts the \
world's largest known Hadoop production environment to date, spanning more than \
35,000 nodes.

Under the Hood
Apache Hadoop 2 reflects intensive community- development, production experience, \
extensive testing, and feedback from hundreds of knowledgeable users, data scientists \
and systems engineers, bringing a highly stable, enterprise-ready release of the \
fastest-growing big data platform.  

New in Hadoop 2 is the addition of YARN that sits on top of HDFS and serves as a \
large-scale, distributed operating system for big data applications, enabling \
multiple applications to run simultaneously for more efficient support of data \
throughout its entire lifecycle. The culmination of so many other releases in the \
Hadoop 2.x line, the most current release --2.2.0-- is the first stable release in \
the 2.x line. Features include support support for:

  - Apache Hadoop YARN, a cornerstone of next generation Apache Hadoop, for running \
both data-processing applications (e.g. Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Storm etc.) \
                and services (e.g. Apache HBase)
  - High Availability for Apache Hadoop HDFS
  - Federation for Apache Hadoop HDFS for significant scale compared to Apache Hadoop \
                1.x.
  - Binary Compatibility for existing Apache Hadoop MapReduce applications built for \
                Apache Hadoop 1.x.  
  - Support for Microsoft Windows.  
  - Snapshots for data in Apache Hadoop HDFS.  
  - NFS-v3 Access for Apache Hadoop HDFS.  

"The community has stepped up to the challenge of making Hadoop enterprise-ready, \
hardening the filesystem, providing high availability, adding critical security \
capabilities,and delivering integrations to enable consolidation of any kind or \
amount of enterprise data," said Aaron Myers, member of the Apache Hadoop Project \
Management Committee and Engineer at Cloudera.

"Today, with the announcement of Hadoop 2 and YARN, we've taken another step. Beyond \
the basic multitenancy customers have enjoyed for the past year, enabling them to mix \
batch, interactive and real-time workloads, they now have the ability to do so from \
within a stable foundational part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It's a testament to the \
community's work that now every distribution of Apache Hadoop will enjoy these \
benefits, ensuring that customers can deliver the applications they need, on a single \
Hadoop platform."

"It has been an honor and pleasure to work with the community and a personal thrill \
to see our four years of work on YARN finally coming to fruition in the GA of Hadoop \
2," added Murthy. "Apache Hadoop is truly becoming a cornerstone of the modern data \
architecture by enabling organizations to leverage the value of all their data, \
including capturing net-new data types, to drive innovative new services and \
applications."

"A large portion of the credit for this success is due to Apache's open-source model, \
which has permitted a wide range of users and vendors to productively collaborate on \
a platform shared by all," added Cutting.

Availability and Oversight
As with all Apache products, Apache Hadoop software is released under the Apache \
License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the \
project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day \
operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Hadoop \
release notes, source code, documentation, and related resources are available at \
http://hadoop.apache.org/.

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty \
leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular \
Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache \
Way," more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate \
to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users \
worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; \
and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, \
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The \
ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and \
corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, \
Comcast, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, \
Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group,  Pivotal, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more \
information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.

"Apache", "Apache Hadoop", "Hadoop", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache \
Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their \
respective owners.

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