Cloudera Makes Hadoop Safe For The Enterprise
The oldest and largest Hadoop software and services provider, Cloudera has been focused on making open-source Apache Hadoop a reliable platform for business use since 2008. The company has more than 100 customers, but that could jump dramatically in the year ahead given
Cloudera's recent partnership with Oracle, the IT industry's dominant database supplier.
Cloudera adds two crucial elements to its distribution of Apache Hadoop Software: the Cloudera Manager console for administering and managing Hadoop deployments, and enterprise-grade support. Cloudera Manager offers wizard-based installation and configuration menus for deploying Hadoop. It then offers tools to help system managers monitor the health of the platform, diagnose problems, optimize performance, and make required configuration and security changes.
Cloudera support is available eight hours a day, five days a week or 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with services including configuration checks, escalation and issue resolution, integration with third-party systems, and knowledge bases, articles, and other technical resources. Training and consulting round out the available services. The Cloudera Enterprise combination of the Hadoop software distribution, Cloudera Manager and support is list priced at $4,000 per node, per year (not including hardware.)
Recommended Reading
Oracle Makes Big Data Appliance Move With Cloudera
Hadoop Heat: Cloudera, NetApp Strike At EMC
EMC Release Promises All-Purpose Big-Data Platform
IBM Beats Oracle, Microsoft With Big Data Leap
Microsoft Adds Big Data Platform To SQL Server 2012