Category: Hortonworks

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Gino Gemignani. Posted in Culture | July 01, 2022 5 min read For this month’s #ClouderaLife Spotlight we did something a little different. In celebration of Pride Month, we sat down with two Clouderans who are influential in the company’s LGBTQ+ community: Autymn Harris and Jonathan Sanford. In this Q&A discussion, we asked them about their roles at Cloudera and what the LGBTQ+ resource groups are up to for Cloudera Pride celebrations. We then got into an informative discussion around important issues within the greater community to think about and suggest ways to take action.  So ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Bill Zhang. Posted in Technical | June 30, 2022 5 min read We are excited to announce the general availability of Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation, and helps users avoid vendor lock-in. Today’s general availability announcement covers Iceberg running within key data services in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)—including Cloudera Data Warehousing (CDW), Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE), and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML). These tools empower analysts and data scientists to easily collaborate on the same data, with their choice of tools ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: André Araújo. Posted in Technical | June 28, 2022 9 min read In a previous blog of this series, Turning Streams Into Data Products, we talked about the increased need for reducing the latency between data generation/ingestion and producing analytical results and insights from this data. We discussed how Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP) with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink could be used to process this data in real time and at scale. In this blog we will show a real example of how that is done, looking at how we can use CSP to perform real-time ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Carolyn Duby. Posted in Technical | June 23, 2022 3 min read Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Those are enormously important in the private and public sectors alike. But for government agencies, there is a greater mission: improving people’s lives. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible. This is intrinsically worthwhile, but it has now been codified as part of the Federal Data Strategy and its stated mission to “fully leverage the value of federal data for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Monique Hesseling. Posted in Business | June 22, 2022 4 min read Across the globe, cloud concentration risk is coming under greater scrutiny. The UK HM Treasury department recently issued a policy paper “Critical Third Parties to the Finance Sector.” The paper is a proposal to enable oversight of third parties providing critical services to the UK financial system. The proposal would grant authority to classify a third party as “critical” to the financial stability and welfare of the UK financial system, and then provide governance in order to minimize the potential systemic risk. The financial ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Ram Venkatesh. Posted in Business | June 17, 2022 4 min read Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake. In a rush to own this term, many vendors have lost sight of the fact that the openness of a data architecture is what guarantees its durability and longevity ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Michael Kohs. Posted in Technical | June 17, 2022 6 min read In the second blog of the Universal Data Distribution blog series, we explored how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) can help you implement use cases like data lakehouse and data warehouse ingest, cybersecurity, and log optimization, as well as IoT and streaming data collection. A key requirement for these use cases is the ability to not only actively pull data from source systems but to receive data that is being pushed from various sources to the central distribution service.  In this third ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: George Vetticaden. Posted in Technical | June 16, 2022 10 min read Every large enterprise organization is attempting to accelerate their digital transformation strategies to engage with their customers in a more personalized, relevant, and dynamic way. The ability to perform analytics on data as it is created and collected (a.k.a. real-time data streams) and generate immediate insights for faster decision making provides a competitive edge for organizations.  Organizations are increasingly building low-latency, data-driven applications, automations, and intelligence from real-time data streams. Use cases like fraud detection, network threat analysis, manufacturing intelligence, commerce optimization, real-time offers, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Debbie Kruger. Posted in Culture | June 15, 2022 3 min read Cloudera’s June Volunteer Spotlight is Michael Billau, customer operations engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina! Michael volunteers with the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina provides food daily to the over 200,000 people facing food insecurity and hunger in the Raleigh area, while simultaneously building solutions to end hunger permanently in communities across North Carolina.  When asked, “What made you choose to volunteer with this organization?” Michael shared that while growing up, his family ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Paul Codding. Posted in Business | June 13, 2022 3 min read We are excited to announce that Cloudera is named as a 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). Peer Insights is a user review site, the technology professional’s “go-to” destination for information on customer experience. Gartner Peer Insights collects anonymous customer reviews on select product categories. To date, Gartner has collected over 450,000 reviews for 18,000 products in over 425 categories. How does Gartner determine where vendors fall?  From the Gartner-validated reviews provided by real-world customers and users of ... Read More