Cloudera has announced new technology enhancements to its core platform that will make it easier for companies to use elastic, on-demand cloud infrastructure.
Cloudera Director makes it easier for customers to deploy and manage the lifecycle of Cloudera Enterprise clusters across cloud environments. Customers can select from templates for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and now Microsoft Azure for rapid provisioning and cluster grow/shrink and terminate along with the ability to monitor and manage all clusters from a single unified interface.
- Additional features of Cloudera Director now include:
- 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
The move to cloud is a top priority for CIOs in 2016 across the globe. According to a Gartner Survey Analysis: Cloud Adoption Across Vertical Industries Exhibits More Similarities Than Differences, February 2015, IT spending on public cloud is growing at a five-year CAGR of 18% through 2018 – further evidence that cloud spend is far outpacing IT spend with no signs of slowing down.
Another industry analyst, Tony Baer of Ovum is on record saying that the cloud is where the next wave of Hadoop take-up is going to happen. More specifically: “Ovum believes that appliances and cloud deployment will drive the next major adoption wave of Hadoop and big data analytics.”
“We are using Cloudera Enterprise on AWS to capture and process thousands of critical events at scale to provide our banking clients with unique insights about their customers that drive revenue growth,” said Kaushik Deka, chief technology officer and director of engineering for Novantas. “In addition to their leadership on Hadoop and Spark, working with Cloudera also gives us the flexibility to deploy the application in the environment of our choice. We use Cloudera Director to launch on AWS, but we also maintain a hybrid environment for clients who don’t want their data in the public cloud.”
The company also announced it is generating significant momentum with customers running production environments on public cloud infrastructure.
A significant number of enterprise companies - including Adecco, Airbnb, GoPro, Nielsen, Novantasand others - are running Cloudera Enterprise on public cloud infrastructure.
Among the reasons for deploying in a hybrid, multi-cloud, or single cloud service is to increase the ability for data engineers and data analysts to respond to business problems through self-service provisioning; and meet strategic objectives to “move to the cloud” to reduce a company’s owned data center footprint.