Q&A: Why Syncsort introduced the mainframe to Hadoop

When you think of leaders in big data and analytics, you’d be forgiven for not listing Syncsort among them. But this nearly 50-year-old company, which began selling software for the decidedly unglamorous job of optimizing mainframe sorting, has refashioned itself into a critical conduit by which core corporate data flows into Hadoop and other key big data platforms. Syncsort labels itself “a freedom fighter” liberating data and dollars — sometimes millions of dollars — from the stranglehold of big iron and traditional data warehouse/analytics systems.

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