With the announcement this week of its cloud-based DataPlane Service, Hortonworks Inc. is now firmly seated on the simplicity bandwagon. The enterprise-scale offering is designed to provide an easier way for organizations to govern and analyze data, no matter where it may reside.

“The goal is to keep making it simpler and easier for the customer to get to the cloud, bring machine learning and data science models to the data, and make it easy for the consumption of the next generation of applications,” said Rob Bearden (pictured, left), chief executive officer of Hortonworks. “It’s all about enabling a next generation of IT [information technology] architecture.”

Bearden visited theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with co-hosts John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris) during the BigData NYC conference in New York City. He was joined by Rob Thomas (pictured, right), general manager of IBM Analytics at IBM Corp., and they discussed how the new service solves customer pain points, enterprise interest in multicloud tools and a future focus on governance. (* Disclosure below.)

IBM’s governance platform included

The announcement of the new service from Hortonworks also included concurrent news that IBM’s Unified Governance Software Platform will be integrated with the offering. The IBM platform uses the same code base on hardware, public and private clouds, federated to Hortonworks through common SQL programming language.

“That solves the two main enterprise pain points. Help me get to cloud, and help me apply data science and machine learning,” Thomas said.

The new Hortonworks service includes a Data Lifecycle Manager, which will manage assets extensively through multiple tiers that include critical functions, such as recovery. It’s also recognition that both IBM and Hortonworks are gearing platforms and services for customers who are increasingly moving to a multicloud world and they want automation and data science tools as part of the mix.

“We don’t have to wait for a static programming model to automate a function,” Bearden said.

The integration of IBM’s governance platform highlights the company’s focus on the compliance arena. Expect to see more news on governance in the future. “I think that’s the piece that’s still not quite been figured out by most enterprises yet,” Thomas said. “The need is understood; the implementation is slow; so I think you’ll see more from us collectively there.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of BigData NYC 2017. (* Disclosure: Hortonworks Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Hortonworks nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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