Companies collaborate on deep product integration and joint
go-to-market programs to help customers realize the full potential of
enterprise-ready Hadoop workloads
PALO ALTO, Calif. & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by ApacheTM
Hadoop®, and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider
of open source solutions, today announced an alliance to deliver joint
enterprise software solutions including data integration and application
development tools, and data platforms. By integrating a broad range of
products and technologies, Cloudera and Red Hat will help customers
harness the fast changing big data life cycle with open, secure and
agile solutions.
As part of the alliance, the two companies plan to deliver joint
solutions to enterprise customers with cooperative documentation,
marketing and support. In today's enterprise, the new data life cycle is
driven by vast amounts of unstructured and structured data, iterative
analytic models and rapidly evolving technology landscape. Together,
Cloudera and Red Hat will help enterprise customers deploy big data
solutions that best suit their needs - on premises or in a hybrid or
private cloud.
The combined Cloudera and Red Hat solutions offer an open and agile
technology stack for enterprises to modernize their traditional data
management architecture and deploy Hadoop as the core of their big data
infrastructure. The companies plan to work together on the following
initiatives:
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Cloud-ready data platforms to accelerate the transition to the
open hybrid cloud with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and
Sahara integrated with Cloudera Director and Cloudera Enterprise, all
managed by Red Hat CloudForms.
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Enterprise-ready data platforms that are secure, scalable and
easy to manage with the integration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
OpenJDK support and Red Hat Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprise,
Cloudera Manager and Cloudera Navigator.
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Agile data integration and application development tools with
Red Hat JBoss Middleware and OpenShift by Red Hat integrated with
Cloudera Enterprise that leverages the Cloudera Kite libraries,
Cloudera Impala and Apache Hive connectors.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Stevens, vice president, Business and Corporate Development,
Cloudera
"Through rapid mainstream adoption, Hadoop has become the core of an
enterprise data hub that requires a flexible deployment model, robust
security, governance and agile development tools to be successful. Our
alliance with Red Hat allows for Hadoop workloads to be deployed and
managed with the same confidence as other mission-critical workloads to
deliver the next wave of big data-based innovation for the enterprise."
Scott Musson, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, Red Hat
"Red Hat believes the data life cycle in the enterprise is changing
rapidly and requires an open, agile approach to innovation in the data
center. Hadoop and OpenStack are key components to this disruption. Red
Hat customers are looking for choices in open software solutions for big
data and hybrid cloud to help them easily and quickly transform their
infrastructure and applications. With today's announcement, Red Hat and
Cloudera intend to give customers an open and modular technology stack
to quickly derive new insights from their data, optimize their existing
investment in platform infrastructure and lower the overall cost of
managing data platforms."
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About Cloudera
Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the
first unified Platform for Big Data, an enterprise data hub built on
Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access,
process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend
the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to
derive value from their data. Cloudera's open source Big Data platform
is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most
prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading
educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 22,000
individuals worldwide. Over 1,200 partners and a seasoned professional
services team help deliver greater time to value. Finally, only Cloudera
provides proactive and predictive support to run an enterprise data hub
with confidence. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public
sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.
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