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Absolutely. The main difference is that Savanna is the Hadoop oriented service. 
It aims to provide unified user-friendly API that will allow users to deploy Hadoop clusters fastly and without additional configurations for cluster provisioning.

Sergey Lukjanov

On Apr 11, 2013, at 20:21, Lloyd Dewolf <lloydostack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On 11 April 2013 08:30, Sergey Lukjanov <slukjanov at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> 
>>> we finished Phase 1 of our roadmap and released the first project release!
>>> 
>>> Currently Savanna has the REST API for Hadoop cluster provisioning using pre-installed images and we started working on pluggable mechanism for custom cluster provisioning tools.
>>> 
>>> Also I'd like to note that custom pages for OpenStack Dashbord have been published too.
>>> 
>>> You can find more info on Savanna site:
>> 
>> Savanna seems to fit into the same space as Heat (going off your
>> diagram on http://savanna.mirantis.com/) - can you explain how it is
>> different?
> 
> 
> My understanding of Savanna is it's complete focus on Hadoop.
> 
> Monty also recently asked about the opportunity for Savanna to use
> Heat in a thread titled "Re: [openstack-dev] [EHO] Project name change
> [Savanna]"
> http://markmail.org/message/2vre6r4kgwqhvhav
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Lloyd
> 
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