HP marks Haven OnDemand milestone in big data strategy

HP has unveiled HP Haven OnDemand, a milestone in its big data strategy that gives organisations cloud-based access to key components of HP’s analytics platform. HP Haven OnDemand, which runs on the HP Helion cloud, enables customers to analyse data and create related applications and services.

"For a recent hackathon event, we utilised HP’s Haven OnDemand platform to produce several innovative new applications over an incredibly short amount of time. In particular HP IDOL OnDemand’s intuitive interface and wide array of API’s allowed our developers to ‘think big’ and realise their vision,” said Chris Blatchford, Director, Business Operations –Platform Group Thomson Reuters.

HP Haven allows organisations to put data and insights at the core of their business, quickly:

 HP Vertica OnDemand offers analytic capabilities with a premium on ease of use. Customers can be up and running analytics using HP Vertica OnDemand within minutes. This service supports flexible consumption models, including a managed virtual private cloud offering developed in partnership with HP Enterprise Services.

 HP IDOL OnDemand – provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of Big Data web services that developers, partners, and customers can use to build next
generation applications that can analyse a broad spectrum of data types, including images, social media, text, and video. HP IDOL OnDemand leverages the advanced data processing engine of HP IDOL to enable a broad range of unique functions, including contextual search, sentiment analysis and face detection. To date, over 5,000 developers have signed up as registered users of the service.

HP Software also unveiled several innovations across its portfolio that leverage HP Haven Big data analytics:

 IT Operations Management – HP has a set of new IT Operations Management solutions that leverages Haven analytics to help organisations automate and optimise IT application and system management, resulting in faster time to market, greater cost efficiencies, and enhanced customer
experiences.

 Security – A new version of HP ArcSight ESM, a security information and event management (SIEM) solution, detects and protects against security threats through real-time correlation and analysis of billions of events per day. The new release includes several innovations to improve the speed and performance of the solution. 

Additionally, HP Application Defender, the industry’s first cloud-managed application self-protection service, leverages HP
Haven analytics to provide immediate visibility and actively defend production applications against attacks. HP Application Defender is generally available now, and customers can visit www.hp-application-defender.com to sign up for a trial.

 Intelligent retention and content management – HP also announced a new solution that combines HP hardware and software technologies to allow organisations to intelligently manage data throughout its lifecycle. The solution brings together HP StoreAll, HP ControlPoint, HP Records Manager and HP Haven analytics to reinvent end-to-end information lifecycle management.

 Analytics on Hadoop – HP announced the general availability of HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop, an analytics platform that enables customers to access and explore data in Hortonworks, MapR, Cloudera, Apache based data lakes, or any combination of these Hadoop distributions.

“To succeed in today’s marketplace, businesses must be able to leverage all forms of data, at high speed and in context, in order to capitalise on emerging opportunities and manage risk and costs,” said Tay Bee Kheng, VP and GM, Asia Pacific and Japan, HP Software.

HP Vertica OnDemand will be available in calendar year Q1 2015. HP IDOL OnDemand is available now as an early access web service.  All other solutions described are generally available except for HP ArcSight ESM 6.8c which is available for download in January 2015. Pricing is based on the amount of information managed by terabyte. HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop is priced per node and available worldwide via direct and indirect channels.