Cloudera announces tech enhancements to its core platform
Cloudera, the data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies has announced new technology enhancements to its core platform to help companies use elastic, on-demand cloud infrastructure for gaining business value from data.
Mike Olson, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera said, “Helping our customers win in the cloud is a key strategic objective for Cloudera. Today our enterprise platform is uniquely positioned to support any kind of big data workload in the cloud, whether transient or long-lived, handling batch jobs in support of building data ingest pipelines or supporting advanced SQL analytics and complex event processing.
“We deliver true elasticity, scaling to handle workloads on demand, and offering consumption-based pricing that users expect in the cloud. Delivering this customer success requires providing companies with choice in where they run their workloads. They need the ability to react quickly to changing business demands on a platform in a manner that’s secure and meets strict guidelines for data governance.”
Enhancements
Clouera claims that a significant number of enterprise companies – including Adecco, Airbnb, GoPro, Nielsen, Novantas and others – are running Cloudera Enterprise on public cloud infrastructure. Reasons for deploying in a hybrid, multi-cloud, or single cloud service often include the desire to do the following:- Reduce the cost associated with purchasing, configuring, and maintaining on-premises hardware required to run big data applications
- Increase the ability for data engineers and data analysts to respond to business problems through self-service provisioning
- Meet strategic objectives to “move to the cloud” to reduce a company’s owned data center footprint
- Integrated usage meter with automated billing for a pay-as-you-go computing experience to go along with node-based pricing in the cloud
- Ability to deploy into multiple regions and availability zones from a single Cloudera Director instance
- Availability to deploy Cloudera Director via the Azure Marketplace coming soon
- Support for spot instance and preemptible instance provisioning