Zettaset, a fast-growing developer of management software for Hadoop, has been awarded a patent for the high-availability (HA) component that ships with its flagship Orchestrator solution. Issued on November 26, 2013 and announced last week, U.S. Patent #8,595,546 covers a technique for “split brain resistant fail-over in high availability Hadoop clusters.”

The technology is fully compatible with distributions from the top three vendors, namely Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR, and automatically fires up a backup node when a service goes down. That includes NameNode metadata servers and JobTracker instances as well as Hive, Oozie, the Kerberos authentication protocol and other critical security functions like encryption and roll-based access control, the firm says.

The software can also be implemented in NoSQL deployments and supports analytics applications through an out-of-the-box connector, allowing users to protect all of their information without having to move any data around. That’s a big plus for large enterprises struggling with disparate IT silos.

Another major advantage of Orchestrator is that it supports both stateful and stateless service modes, which ensures data remains available even if an entire Hadoop cluster goes down. The platform plugs several critical holes in the open source analytics framework, which Zettaset chief exec Jim Vogt describes as “great infrastructure, but unfortunately not very enterprise-friendly.”

In an interview on theCUBE shortly after his appointment as CEO, the industry veteran detailed that “what we do is we put an enterprise wrapper on it, and create a solution that is enterprise-ready.” Large organizations “always want certain things within a solution, they want to have resiliency and availability, they want to be able to monitor and manage, deploy, control, alert – things that just simply aren’t in the Hadoop structure,” he explained.

See the entire segment with Jim in the clip below, where he discusses Hadoop, the Big Data market and the enterprise opportunity at Strata last year.

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