Cisco has been working closely with Hortonworks in delivering turnkey Big Data solutions that expedites the time to market for our joint Big Data Hadoop customers. Cisco's industry leading UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, is designed to deliver performance at scale for a wide variety of Big Data workloads. We are working with Hortonworks to integrate Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data with Apache Ambari, to provide a fully automated solution to deploy and manage Hadoop hardware, networking and the Hortonworks Data Platform. It is built on the solid foundation of the highly successful UCS management platform and the award winning UCS Director orchestration engine.

Today, we are excited that Cisco UCS is HDP certified and Operations Ready. The integration with Apache Ambari allows customers to now deploy and manage their Hadoop clusters in a reliable and consistent manner. The Operations Ready designation is a new certification introduced by Hortonworks to provide the additional assurance that the tool has been integrated with Apache Ambari APIs. Cisco UCS with Hortonworks delivers a fully validated solution and reduces the complexity of managing Hadoop clusters. Cisco is committed to bringing industry leading solutions for Big Data to market, in partnership with Hortonworks and other ecosystem partners.