We just added a video to the Hortonworks Executive Video library that features Alan Gates, Hortonworks co-founder and Apache PMC member. In this video, Alan discusses HCatalog, one of the most compelling projects in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

HCatalog is a metadata and table management system that provides a consistent data model and schema for users of tools such as MapReduce, Hive and Pig. When you consider that there are often users accessing Hadoop clusters using different tools that independently don’t agree on schema, data types, how and where data is stored, etc., then you can understand the value of having a tool such as HCatalog.

In this video, Alan does a good job of not only explaining the role of HCatalog, but also laying out the future direction of the project. He talks about improving the integration with HBase, improving information lifecycle management and expanding the HCatalog data model to address the challenges of unstructured data.

In case you didn’t see the news today, Hadoop Summit announced record ecosystem support for this year’s conference. The original and world’s largest Apache Hadoop conference, now in its fifth year, is being sponsored this year by more than 40 traditional and open source software and services companies.

Hortonworks and our co-host Yahoo! would like to thank the following companies for helping to make Hadoop Summit possible:

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The third installment of the Hortonworks executive video series features Arun C. Murthy, co-founder of Hortonworks and VP of Apache Hadoop for the Apache Software Foundation. In this video, Arun shares his view of the power of Apache Hadoop and provides some insight into the future direction of MapReduce, including the ability to support alternate programming paradigms.

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We just released the second video in the Hortonworks Executive Series. This one features Matt Foley, Test and Release Engineering Manager for Hortonworks.

In this video, Matt provides an overview of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), including a summary of the Apache Hadoop components included in the distribution and the testing processes involved in the release process. Matt also provides an overview of Apache Ambari, an open source project that is adding monitoring and management capabilities to Apache Hadoop.

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I’m pleased to announce the first in a series of videos featuring Hortonworks founders and executives sharing their thoughts on how Apache Hadoop is being extended to become the next generation enterprise data platform. Over the coming weeks and months, you will be hearing from folks such as Matt Foley, Arun Murthy, Sanjay Radia and Alan Gates, just to name a few.

The first video features Shaun Connolly, Hortonworks VP of Corporate Strategy, talking about the Hortonworks vision for Apache Hadoop. In this video, Shaun does a nice job of outlining our vision that Apache Hadoop will process or touch half of the world’s data by 2015. How is Hortonworks helping to make this happen? Click on the video image below to find out.

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