Do Hadoop's best partner

While actively launching commercial version of Hadoop while actively investing in Cloudera, a big data analytics management software developer based on Hadoop, when Intel recently announced that it would unite the "two lines" to launch a more "Fusion Edition" Hadoop At the time, the king of chips in the big data market, sophisticated layout and ambition also emerge in the forefront - it is to create the most suitable Hadoop server chip system, it is to become the king of the era of big data.

In the booming big data market, the opportunities for infrastructure vendors undoubtedly come from their connection to Hadoop, the widely-used open source system.

Intel has been heavily focused on Hadoop since 2009, when it comes to fully expanding its big data market. As you can see, the Hadoop distribution (IDH) introduced by Intel in recent years has not stopped at a single version, but is constantly upgrading: IDH 1.0 was introduced in 2011, IDH 2.0 was introduced in 2012 and IDH 3.1 was introduced this year.

When Intel announced the investment in Cloudera, a big data software provider based on Apache Hadoop, for a $ 740 million acquisition of an 18% stake in Cloudera at the end of March this year, it was already predicted that Intel would put IDH even more onerous, Did not think this change will come so fast.

Then China's gas

Recently, Intel and Cloudera co-hosted the launching ceremony and press conference on the theme of "joining forces, focusing on China and piloting big data" in Shanghai and Beijing. At a Beijing station press briefing, Intel made it clear that it will move from custom-made Hadoop to Cloudera products and will no longer launch the new version of IDH alone, but will instead be "Fusion of IDH (Intel Hadoop Distribution) and CDH (Cloudera Hadoop Distribution) Version".

Cloudera's expertise is to help business users manage data through Hadoop, the first company to commercialize Hadoop, and nowhere else in Hadoop's commercialization. Mike Olson, Cloudera's co-founder, chairman and chief strategy officer, made it clear that Intel has been Cloudera's foremost hardware partner and that most of their users are using the Intel platform. However, in the past, some products of Intel IDH did not show performance in the CDH. It is estimated that three fusion versions will be released in June, September and December this year respectively to gradually complete the integration of IDH and CDH.

And Intel no doubt hopes that the company's demand for big data analytics will drive sales of high-end Xeon server processors. Moving to a Cloudera version of Hadoop rather than developing a system will help make this goal faster. Not only that, in order to speed up the market transformation, Intel is also promoting Hadoop commercial version of "China."

As far as the size of the big data market is concerned, China has become the market next only to the United States. At Intel, IDH's research and development was undertaken by the Chinese team and was first put into operation in the Chinese market. At present, IDH has cooperated with many customers in China. At the press conference, Cloudera, who has never been to China before, pledged to establish a business presence in China in September this year. Its business will cover direct sales, professional services, customer support, training, and research and development. As a start-up, Cloudera's determination to grow in the Chinese market is clearly coming more from Intel's need - to make Hadoop more relevant to business applications and "more relevant to China."

Big data determines the server market in the future

PC market changes, the server business has become an important driver of Intel's performance growth. Big data is a key part of the "Internet of Things," and is also a driving force for changes in business models. According to IDC, the global market for big data technology and services will grow at a 27% annual rate and reach $ 32 billion by 2017. Supporting the analysis and use of data has become a major opportunity for IT companies, including Intel. While Intel is actively providing processors to IoT data acquisition devices, it actively provides data centers with the ability to analyze the data generated by these devices through software and hardware convergence solutions.

Big data is just the beginning of the industry, with the data application model changes, the future IT computing model will change. As a provider of computing technology, Intel's investment in this area and the advance layout of the ecosystem are clearly wise. According to Mike Olson, Intel is the strongest company in the data center area, especially for the development of business partners in China, far beyond competitors. Working with Intel will make it easier for big data analytics companies to achieve market-leading and successful goals. "Intel is currently a big market leader in the big data space, especially in China," he said.

Wintel alliance to see the entire industry Intel brought Microsoft's "benefits", which makes a lot of new big data software companies are more willing to join Intel's ecosystem. Mike Olson bluntly, Intel's commitment to Linux, cooperation with Red Hat and investments in virtualization, the technical thrust of investing in VMWare and growth opportunities for VMWare are the reasons that prompted Cloudera to select Intel.

Business acceleration for the data

The partnership between Intel and Cloudera will also be a landmark event for the IT community as a whole. For the first time in the field of big data, the close technical integration of commercial software vendors and hardware platform vendors is beneficial for accelerating data commerce.

Hadoop is just the basic technology of big data, there are many insurmountable gaps in meeting the actual needs of business applications. As Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of data center software at Intel's Data Center Division, said, through its deep collaboration with Cloudera, Intel's hardware platform will be closer to the actual needs of users and help them create open and optimized hardware for The power of computing platforms translates into the ability to solve more business and public problems.

"Big data offers a huge opportunity, and now we're just scratching the surface on those opportunities." Boyd Davis believes new capabilities, new business models, new service models and new interaction models will be implemented in the coming years Amazing development. Working with Cloudera will make it easier for Intel to meet its goals and meet the big data opportunities, especially from China. In his view, China faces many challenges in the fields of energy, food and drinking water, and public safety, and big data is just one of the ways to solve these problems. Intel hopes to use a different technology platform to promote local innovation in China, and ultimately solve these problems.