HP Delivers Predictive Analytics at Big Data Scale

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 17, 2015) -  (Strata + Hadoop World) -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) today unveiled HP Haven Predictive Analytics, a new offering that accelerates and operationalizes large-scale machine learning and statistical analysis, and ultimately provides organizations with much deeper insights and understanding into today's rapidly evolving data volumes.

Powered by HP's innovative Distributed R offering, the new release dramatically improves performance and enables users to analyze much larger data sets than was previously possible with the popular R statistical programing language. Available now at http://www.vertica.com/distributedr, the new offering includes the following key components and capabilities:

• Distributed R - a new high performance analytical engine based on the open source R language developed with HP Labs to address the most demanding, Big Data predictive analytics tasks.
• Data acceleration and native SQL support with HP Vertica - native integration with the market leading columnar MPP database increases overall data access performance by up to 5X and enables a broader community of developers and DBAs to put predictive analytics into action.
• Out-of-the-box-algorithms - a comprehensive set of proven, out-of-the-box parallel algorithms that produce accurate and consistent results with mature standard R algorithms.
• Open Source - the new offering is free and fully compatible with the open source R language and tools and backed by enterprise support from HP and priced per node.
  
  

"HP Haven Predictive Analytics provides the scale and performance to Cerner to achieve predictive analytics health care solutions that were not possible before," said Dr. Doug McNair, M.D., PhD, senior vice president at Cerner Corporation (@Cerner). "The Distributed R technology is vital for Cerner's discovery activities, which we conduct for Cerner's health care clients around the world. In health care use cases, the most valuable item sets are rare. Therefore, coverage of the entire corpus of records is often essential to avoid false-negative results and to ensure model stability. HP Haven Predictive Analytics is a strategic enabler for Cerner."