EMC and Cloudera are partnering to help businesses analyse and manage big data.
The companies will integrate EMC's Greenplum data warehousing and analytics technology with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) that collects, consolidates and analyses data.
According to EMC, the integrated technologies aim at assisting businesses to manage and analyse large quantities of structured and unstructured information. Collectively known as 'big data', this information would include log files, sensor data, streaming data, sales receipts, e-mails, research data and images.
Over and above the technical integration, the alliance will see the companies working together on joint sales activities.
Moreover, Cloudera will build a connector between the technologies, which will be jointly supported by both companies, and will allow high-speed bi-directional data transfer between the systems.
“EMC is building the data system of the future, a system that brings together all of your data, all of your tools, and all of your people,” says Inana Nkanza, country manager of EMC Southern Africa. “EMC and Cloudera represent a powerful combination of what we can deliver to customers.”
Cloudera's platform is built on Apache Hadoop, a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free licence. It consolidates data into a single repository for analysis, and enables fast and detailed processing of the data.
The integration of the two technologies will allow users to access and analyse data from the Greenplum databases and Hadoop infrastructure seamlessly. “Bringing EMC and Cloudera solutions together creates a powerful tool for collaborative data analysis,” concludes EMC.
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