Attunity, a provider of real-time data integration, and Hortonworks, a commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, jointly announced a partnership focused on the delivery of high-performance solutions to move Big Data in and out of Apache Hadoop.

The planned combined solution provided by this partnership will enable enterprises to overcome the challenge of turning Big Data into actionable business decisions, and gain a competitive advantage through the use of business intelligence and predictive analytics whether in the cloud or across enterprise data centers.

Specifically, the partnership will combine Hortonworks' Apache Hadoop expertise with Attunity's data integration technology to facilitate loading of massive amounts of structured and unstructured data to the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System. The Hortonworks Data Platform makes Apache Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use, while providing an open and stable foundation for enterprises to build and deploy Big Data solutions.

Attunity's data integration solutions are designed to provide a quick, simple and cost-effective means for moving large volumes of data from many sources into the Hortonworks Data Platform to facilitate storing, processing and analyzing data in data centers and in the cloud.