Santa Clara, California, Aug. 27, 2015: Open Enterprise Hadoop platform provider Hortonworks, Inc. has said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara, Inc., the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, an open source project. The acquisition, it said, would make it easy for customers to automate and secure data flows and to collect, conduct and curate real time business insights and actions derived from data in motion. The terms of the deal were not known.
As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks was introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi, which was complementary to the industry’s leading Open Enterprise Hadoop platform, Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The transaction was expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.
While the majority of today’s solutions were custom-built, loosely secured, difficult to manage and not integrated, Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi was expected to simplify and accelerate the flow of data in motion into HDP for full fidelity analytics. Combined with HDP, these complementary offerings will give customers a holistic set of secure solutions to manage and find value in the increasing volume of streaming IoAT data.
“Hortonworks is focused on doing everything possible to enable our customers to transform their business through data-driven insights and actions,” said Rob Bearden, Chief Executive Officer at Hortonworks. “Onyara’s impressive work on security and simplicity in NiFi, combined with their commitment to open source makes for a perfect addition to our technology team.”
Apache NiFi was made available through the NSA Technology Transfer Program in the fall of 2014. Over the past eight years, Onyara’s engineers were the key contributors to the U.S. government software project that evolved into Apache NiFi. In July 2015, NiFi became a Top-Level Project, signifying that its community and technology have been successfully governed under the Apache Software Foundation.
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