The two open-source software companies, Red Hat and Horton Networks are aiming at speeding up enterprise big data Apache Hadoop projects. The two firms unveiled the beta of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) combined with Red Hat Storage, which is designed to give companies a unified storage pool for all Hadoop workloads. They also announced the integration of HDP with Red Hat JBoss Data Visualization, enabling Hadoop to work with existing data sources including warehouses, SQL and NoSQL databases, on premise and cloud apps and flat and XML files. To know more on this aspect, go through the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet:

http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-and-hortonworks-unveil-hadoop-big-data-collaboration-7000026154/