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Pros
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily.""We use it for data science activities.""The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks.""The product offers a fairly easy setup process.""Now, using this solution, it is much cheaper to have all of the data available for searching, not in real-time, but whenever there is a pending request.""Ambari Web UI: user-friendly.""Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features.""It is a scalable platform."

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"Easy to operate and use.""The most valuable feature is the backup capability.""The most valuable aspect of the product is the policy driving resource management, to optimize the computing across data centers.""Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis.""We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues.""This solution is working for both VTL and tape."

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"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server.""The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack.""The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security.""I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this.""SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale.""The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment.""It is a highly stable solution."

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Cons
"The version control of the software is also an issue.""Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS.""The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement.""I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors.""Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases.""It would also be nice if there were less coding involved.""Security and workload management need improvement.""Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."

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"We have not been able to use deduplication.""SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing.""Spectrum Computing is lagging behind other products, most likely because it hasn't been shifted to the cloud.""This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly.""Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish.""We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."

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"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering.""Its configuration process could be better.""There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product.""SaltStack's features are minimal.""It is difficult to set up.""Web UI.""A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is priced well and it is affordable"
  • "Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results."
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  • "This solution is expensive."
  • "Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."
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  • "So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
  • "The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market."
  • "The solution is free of cost."
  • "It is an open-source product."
  • "SaltStack is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features.
    Top Answer:I haven't done a price analysis specifically for HDP. However, when it was first introduced as Hadoop 2.0, there were a… more »
    Top Answer:Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage… more »
    Top Answer:This solution is too expensive for a lot of our customers.
    Top Answer:The biggest problem is the lack of documentation in general, and documentation in Spanish, in particular.
    Top Answer:We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS… more »
    Top Answer:SaltStack's features are minimal.
    Top Answer:We use SaltStack for configuration management, where we maintain configurations of 150 servers. It also helps with file… more »
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    Hortonworks, HDP
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    Overview
    Hortonworks is a leading innovator in the industry, creating, distributing and supporting enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications. Our mission is to manage the world's data. We have a single-minded focus on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi, and Spark. We along with our 1600+ partners provide the expertise, training and services that allow our customers to unlock transformational value for their organizations across any line of business. Our connected data platforms powers modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from all data: data-in-motion and data-at-rest. We are Powering the Future of Data.

    IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.

    SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. And with the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date.

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    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise57%
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