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Cloudera has announced the latest version of Cloudera Director 2.0, a solution for deploying and managing enterprise Hadoop in cloud environments.
This latest release features new automations to reduce operating costs, deliver critical enterprise-grade capabilities, and provide troubleshooting necessary for production. Customers can also take advantage of customized configurations to quickly get started with common workloads.
Due to the rising popularity of streaming data and the Internet of Things, more data is being generated and stored in the cloud. Paired with the resourcing flexibility of cloud environments, it has become an appealing environment to support many common Hadoop workloads.
Cloudera was the first Hadoop vendor to help customers embrace these trends, and has since developed new technologies through Cloudera Director to support hybrid operations, new optimizations in the platform to seamlessly integrate with object stores, and integrations and partnerships with the major cloud environments -- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure .
Cloudera has worked with customers in all industries, at massive scale, to successfully leverage Hadoop across all the major cloud environments. To get more value from streaming data and power predictive maintenance models, a large European airport uses Cloudera Enterprise on Azure to monitor and report on the health of escalators, conveyor belts, and other critical machines around the airport.
Companies such as Adecco, Airbnb, FINRA, and many more have also embraced cloud environments for enterprise data hub deployments.
“Across all industries and use cases, our customers are interested in running Hadoop in cloud environments, benefiting from the fast resourcing and flexibility it provides,” said Charles Zedlewski, vice president of Products at Cloudera. “To further support our customers, Cloudera Director 2.0 makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to tap into these benefits, while reliably managing cloud deployments both at scale and in production.”
Cloudera Director 2.0 simplifies the experience of running common Hadoop workloads in the cloud: ETL and Modeling, Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics, and Application Delivery -- resulting in cost savings, easier management at scale, and enterprise functionality.
New features focus on automatic job submissions that spin up and terminate clusters on a per job basis, without manual cluster lifecycle management. The latest release supports AWS Spot instances and GCP Preemptible instances, as well as Apache Hive and Apache Spark on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (released with Cloudera 5.5).
Other features include cluster cloning and cluster repair to grow computing resources and repair issues without disrupting the business; and support for secure, multi-tenant access to users analyzing data in Amazon S3 or other Hadoop storage options with RecordService (available in beta).
Release 2.0 also automatically enables high availability and Kerberos as part of the bootstrap workflow; and seamlessly connects to the rest of the business with external database connectors and integration with Cloudera Enterprise backup and disaster recovery
For all workloads, there are customizable templates and configurations to easily manage and repeat deployments. Cloudera provides an aggregated view of all clusters, across all environments, down to the instance-level for metadata filtering, transparent monitoring, and improved troubleshooting.
“Recent ESG research shows that the number one spending priority amongst those responsible for their companies' strategic big data investments is leveraging cloud-based analytics offerings,” said Nik Rouda, senior analyst at ESG. “Cloudera Director 2.0 is very well aligned to this imperative, enabling businesses to manage Hadoop deployments across both cloud and on-premises environments, providing a robust and mature solution.”
The latest release of Cloudera Director 2.0 works across major cloud platforms, including AWS and GCP, and includes the Open Cloud Connector to easily integrate with other preferred public or private clouds. Users looking to deploy on Microsoft Azure can also seamlessly provision Cloudera Enterprise via the Azure Marketplace.
Cloudera Director is available as a free download for use with CDH and Cloudera Enterprise.