Intel and Cloudera Blend Hadoop products

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After Intel announced 740 million dollars in March this year to buy 18% of the big data [note] From Software solutions provider Cloudera, a series of questions followed: for example, two companies have their own Apache versions of their own, how do two products and services integrate? Original Apache Can the follow-up services for the users of Hadoop Intel distribution be guaranteed? How has Intel changed its strategy on big data? And so on.

May 8, Intel and Cloudera held a joint conference in Beijing, announced that the two sides will continue to strengthen strategic partnership, cooperation and innovation, and further promote China's large data technology and industrial development. To sum up, the core content of the two sides ' cooperation mainly includes the following three aspects.

1. Intel and Cloudera are pushing together the converged version of the Hadoop product.

As a pioneer in the Big data field, Intel and Cloudera each have their own Apache Hadoop distributions. Cloudera products do not have to say, otherwise will not win Intel's heavy investment; the Intel Hadoop distribution is the only distribution that enhances performance and security from a hardware level, with a significant number of users and quality, with China Mobile being one of the users of the Intel Hadoop distribution.

Over the next few months, Intel and Cloudera will work together to consolidate both products, launch converged Hadoop products, and adopt the "Cloudera distribution including Apache Hadoop powered by Intel Software "Logo. According to the published roadmap, 100% of converged Hadoop products will be launched in the 4 quarter of this year.

Miaokai, chief technology officer at Intel Data Center China, says the converged Hadoop product will fully absorb both innovations, such as the integration of Intel's HPC-oriented Hadoop products. At the same time, both sides will focus on the long-term focus of Hadoop security, performance optimization, storage, sql/query, efficient workload, management capacity of the six major research and development.

"The integration and optimization of the Hadoop software from the processor level with the data center infrastructure, providing more efficient and large data solutions, and the establishment of a wide range of large data solution partner ecosystems based on an open platform, which is the purpose and direction of our cooperation with Cloudera." "said Boyd Davis, vice president and Data center software general manager of Intel Data Center Division.

2. Intel encourages and assists the original Hadoop user to migrate smoothly to the new platform.

After Intel's collaboration with Cloudera, the original Hadoop Intel distribution users, as well as relevant partners, are concerned about whether follow-up support maintenance is guaranteed. At the press conference, Boyd Davis, vice president of Intel Data Center and general manager of data center software, made it clear that the technology and services that Intel promises to end users and partners in the contract will not change, because of the increased number of cloudera such strong partners, can provide users with a more professional, large data service, but Intel encourages and assists users to smooth migration to the converged version of the Hadoop platform.

3. Cloudera plans to enter China in September to join hands with Intel to promote China's big data local innovation

At the press conference, Cloudera, co-founder, chairman and chief strategist Mike Olson announced that Cloudera will set up a business in China this September, which will cover direct sales, professional services, customer support, training and research and development.

Although Cloudera is arguably the world's leading big data enterprise, it would be difficult to quickly open the Chinese market without Intel's assistance. Because a complete large data solution includes not only the Hadoop platform, but also the underlying data center infrastructure, upper-tier system software and tools, and a more comprehensive application, is the result of collaboration across the ecosystem. Intel deeply planted China in 30 and has a relatively complete ecosystem in large data areas. The two sides formed a strategic cooperative partnership, the full sharing of resources, should be able to achieve 1+1>2 effect.

The company's upcoming collaboration with Intel and Cloudera in the Chinese market has been highly praised by its local partners who have had in-depth cooperation with intel in large data areas. For example, Zhang, president of Bo Kang Group, who focuses on smart cities and large data applications in intelligent surveillance, says: "We think it's like the surgery industry has a specialization, Intel can specialize in hardware products and technologies for large data, and we can get deep experience and professional support from Cloudera based on Hadoop technology. We are considering planning a new development strategy for our joint laboratory with Intel, leveraging its resources with the Cloudera to move towards the development of more advanced and sophisticated data management and analytics applications for smarter cities. ”

Cloudera and Intel are on a visit to China only one months after the partnership, driven by a consensus between the two sides and the industry as a whole on the prospects for a boom in China's big data market. Data from market research agencies also explain why the two sides value the Chinese market so much – according to IDC: the 2020 Global New and replicated information will reach 40ZB, 12 times times more than 2012 years, of which the amount of data from China will reach 8ZB, compared with China's 2012 years of data volume, Growth of up to 22 times times, which would increase the global share of data from 2012 to 2020 from 13% to 21% 1, also means that China's big data and data analysis will face huge opportunities.