Continuuity, the Hadoop data and apps virtualization company, today announced it will change its name to
Cask,
effective immediately. The new name more accurately reflects the
company's core mission of giving developers simple access to powerful
technology. Under the new name, Cask will release its data application
platform and related technologies as open source with a commitment to
foster dynamic and diverse community-driven development projects.
Additionally, Intel big data veteran Boyd Davis has joined Cask's
executive team as Chief Operating Officer.
- Cask is an open source software company bringing
virtualization to Hadoop data and apps. Founded by developers for
developers in 2011, the team has spent three years developing
technology, working with customers, and building a platform to make it
ready to contribute to open source.
- The Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP, formerly Continuuity
Reactor) enables developers to build a new class of data applications,
including unified real-time and batch processing, with less dependence
on Hadoop expertise. Data virtualization provides logical
representations of data in CDAP Datasets and easy data ingestion with
CDAP Streams, while app virtualization creates standardized containers
for different application types and enables multiple processing
paradigms on shared data. Commercial subscriptions for CDAP are available starting today.
- The first step in the process of building a community around CDAP is
for the Cask team to contribute the project to open source under the
Apache License, Version 2.0. In the future, Cask will become
increasingly community-driven and ultimately result in an open data
application platform. Developers who are interested in joining the
community, making contributions, or providing feedback can learn more at
CDAP's open source community site, cdap.io.
- AT&T Labs and Cask are jointly releasing a developer preview of the open source Tigon
project, a real-time streaming analytics framework for Hadoop based on
technology contributed by both companies. Originally code-named
jetStream, Tigon offers a simple, efficient and cost-effective way for
developers to create a diverse range of apps that address a broad set of
use cases such as network intrusion detection and analytics, social
media market analysis, location analytics, and real-time recommendation
engines that match relevant content to the right users at the right
time.
- Cask has also released a new version of Coopr
(formerly Continuuity Loom), open source infrastructure software that
simplifies cluster provisioning and management on public and private
clouds. Coopr 0.9.8 adds a number of multi-tenancy features, which
provide IT administrators and DevOps with more robust automation
capabilities and greater control and visibility into the allocation of
computing resources.
- Cask has appointed Boyd Davis as Chief Operating Officer. In his new
role, Davis will lead Cask's sales and marketing teams and drive
go-to-market strategy and execution as the company rapidly expands to
meet growing developer and enterprise demand for CDAP. A tech veteran
with over 20 years of experience, Davis previously was vice president of
the Data Center Group at Intel and general manager of the Datacenter
Software Division, which included Intel's distribution for Hadoop.