The Fastest and Easiest Way to Get Started with Apache Hadoop
Integrated Partner Tutorials with Tableau and Zoomdata Allow Users to Test and Extend the Full Platform in an AWS Environment
PALO ALTO, Calif., – July 23, 2015 – Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced Cloudera Live, the fastest way to try Hadoop, is available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including integrated tutorials from some of the leading data analytic tool providers – Tableau and Zoomdata.
Cloudera Live allows organizations to quickly start testing Hadoop and Cloudera Enterprise in a multi-node, cloud environment with pre-loaded data and tutorials and optional partner deployments. Using interactive demos and tutorials, users can learn the basics of Hadoop, experiment with the full production-ready capabilities of Cloudera Enterprise, and test familiar third-party tools. Users will now have a choice between deploying Cloudera Live with AWS or, as previously available, GoGrid.
With many enterprises looking to implement with Hadoop and even more users looking to learn it, an easy-to-deploy testing environment is critical to quickly learn new skills and test the capabilities of the platform and ecosystem integrations.
“Learning the basics of Hadoop is key to getting more value from your data, faster. By giving users choices about how and where to deploy Cloudera Live’s testing environment, they can explore and experiment using the partner tools they already use today, for an accelerated path to success,” said Charles Zedlewski, vice president, Products, Cloudera. “Cloudera Live provides a hands-on Hadoop experience that guides users on how to quickly gain value from Cloudera Enterprise.”
Cloudera has tapped its extensive partner ecosystem to extend the capabilities of Hadoop and Cloudera Enterprise through popular visual data analytics and data integration offerings – Tableau and Zoomdata. These solutions offer powerful visualizations for data wrangling and analytics - opening up the platform and data to more users for greater enterprise value. The ability to test these integrations can help to ensure a seamless transition from trial to production.
To get started with Cloudera Live, visit cloudera.com/live
Supporting Quotes:
“The Cloudera Live project is a great way for to let people to learn the basics of working with Hadoop while leveraging the familiarity they already have with Tableau,” said Dan Jewett, vice president of Product Management at Tableau Software. “The opportunity to begin seeing and understanding your data in a Cloudera environment in minutes running at on top of AWS and exploring that data iteratively, asking and answering questions with it, is a tremendous benefit to everyone.”
"We are thrilled that Zoomdata is integrated with Cloudera Live to allow Cloudera's users to visualize all their Hadoop streams in full fidelity, on AWS," said Nick Halsey, Chief Marketing Officer at Zoomdata. “Now users can visually explore the full range of frameworks available in Cloudera Enterprise — from interactive SQL to search to advanced analytics and streaming. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Cloudera by extending our native support for their stack while providing simple and seamless ways to implement Big Data Analytics with Hadoop and Zoomdata.”
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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 40,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,700 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.
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