Cloudera Announces New Hybrid Data Capabilities
Enterprise data management firm Cloudera has announced new hybrid data capabilities designed to help organizations more efficiently move data, data workloads, and data applications across clouds and on-premises deployments.
According to Cloudera, the new capabilities are key to getting control of hybrid data through a data-first strategy, enabling the entire business to access and analyze their data without limitations.
New hybrid data capabilities
Capabilities include secure data replication of data and metadata between Cloudera deployments in data centers and public clouds. Secure data replication is enabled by the replication manager, which is part of Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX). Crucially, Cloudera’s Replication Manager moves the metadata that carries data security and governance policies with the data wherever it goes, eliminating the need to reimplement them.
Universal Data Distribution also enables companies to take control of their data flows from on-premises deployments to the cloud. This is enabled by Cloudera DataFlow, which provides data distribution with more than 450 connectors and data processors across data lakes, lakehouses, on-premises, and data sources.
Finally, Cloudera says data analytics and the data applications can be seamlessly moved between different infrastructures because its data services are built on a unified code base with identical functionality on AWS, Azure, or on-premises private cloud deployments.
Cloudera chief product officer Sudhir Menon noted that cost or performance are often tightly interlinked in a hybrid, multi-cloud world, and is not a choice companies want to make.
Businesses with a cloud-first strategy want to focus on how they deliver value, not how they spend money, says Menon, and “a huge piece” of this is the ability to move data and workloads through a modern data architecture to meet evolving business requirements.
“Cloudera has always provided consistent data security and governance across [the] hybrid cloud, and with these updates will do so between all data services across all infrastructures,” said Menon.
“Successfully dealing with the changes of today and the challenges of tomorrow requires APAC organizations to possess the tools that enable them to turn data into a strategic business asset,” said Remus Lim, the vice president for the Asia Pacific and Japan at Cloudera.
“As more organizations adopt modern data architectures, the ability to harness both on-premises and cloud-based data quickly is critical. It is crucial to be able to move data between applications and workloads efficiently and securely across hybrid infrastructures and will be key for future success.”
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