With BlueData, you can spin up instant containerized environments for the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and other Big Data analytics and machine learning workloads — providing your data science teams with on-demand environments for greater agility. You can decouple compute from storage resources, to improve efficiency and reduce costs. And you can ensure the enterprise-grade security and governance that your IT teams require. BlueData has completed certification through the rigorous Hortonworks QATS (Quality Assured Testing Suite) program for deploying HDP in a containerized environment. This certification enables Hortonworks and BlueData to provide best-in-class support and high performance for their customers’ existing and future investments in HDP. “We’ve seen rapidly growing interest in running HDP on containers, therefore it was key that we work closely with BlueData to benefit those users,” said Scott Andress, vice president of global channels & alliances at Hortonworks. “They passed our most rigorous QATS certification tests, validating that BlueData provides complete interoperability and high performance for customers running HDP in containerized environments.”