Notch yet another partnership for Hadoop software and services provider Cloudera, as it announced Thursday a deal through which HP will resell the Cloudera Enterprise platform along with its hardware and an HP Hadoop appliance set for release in the fourth quarter.

Cloudera and HP were already partnered, but the agreement and coming appliance will make it easier for joint HP and Cloudera customers to get Hadoop clusters up and running quickly, according to executives at the two companies.

“Customers need to get to proof of concept and into production as fast as possible, and being a [Cloudera] reseller helps us give customers a simple, repeatable methodology for procuring and standing up Hadoop solutions,” Paul Miller, VP of converged application systems at HP, told InformationWeek.
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