The Linux Foundation on Tuesday added PNDA — the Platform for Network Data Analytics — to its project list.
PNDA provides an open source, scalable platform for next-generation network analytics. It integrates data from multiple sources on a network and works with Apache Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data more effectively.
The project is now available in its initial platform release. Early PNDA supporters include Cisco, Deepfield, FRINX, Intersec, Moogsoft, NGENA, Ontology, OpenDataSoft and Tupl.
The Linux Foundation hopes that bringing this project under its purview — which gives it greater exposure to open source communities — will accelerate its features growth.
“The main significance is the legitimacy that becoming a Linux Foundation project confers on PNDA,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
“Bringing it into the foundation may also speed integration of new features, such as Hadoop distribution independence, container support and integration with deep learning frameworks,” he told LinuxInsider.
