Not wanting to be overlooked amidst the Hadoop ecosystem’s bold push into the cloud, several prominent vendors decided to stay on the sidelines of the Big Data Week festival. Unified monitoring provider Zenoss led the charge with a major upgrade to its Service Impact solution, which provides near real time insights into application dependencies across physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure.

According to the company, the revamped tool provides a 300 percent improvement in event processing throughput to accelerate troubleshooting in large-scale IT environments. The product also features a new deployment option for distributed networks, improved provisioning capabilities and a set of self-service tutorial videos for admins.

The same day Zenoss updated Service Impact, Continuuity launched the latest version of its flagship Hadoop application server. Continuuity Reactor 2.0 introduces several notable enhancements, including failover and redundancy, the ability to schedule MapReduce jobs, and a tool for monitoring resource utilization at different levels of the Big Data stack.

These improvements are joined by Kerberos authentication, simplified setup configurations, and new set of APIs that add support for workflow, batch and real time workloads.

Jonathan Gray, the chief executive officer of Continuuity, noted that “we have made significant improvements to our platform with the developer always in mind. We believe that the future of Big Data is applications. To realize that future, the power of Hadoop and HBase must be made accessible to all developers in a simple and intuitive way.”

Over in the business intelligence space, Jaspersoft unleashed the newest release of its embedded BI solution. Jaspersoft 5.5 sports a simplified homepage, a set of pre-customized report templates, and an Eclipse-based reporting tool. Additionally, the platform can now be used with AWS Elastic MapReduce.