Cloudwick developed Ankus, an open source deployment and orchestration framework for big data technologies. Ankus uses configuration files and a directed acyclic graph (DAG) approach to automate the deployment of Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Kafka and other big data frameworks across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. It leverages tools like Puppet, Nagios and Logstash to provision, manage and monitor clusters in an integrated manner. Ankus aims to simplify and accelerate the adoption of big data across organizations.