Pentaho and Cloudera Impala in 5 words

April 29, 2013

Today our big data partner Cloudera, joined us in continuing to deliver innovative, open technologies that bring real business value to customers. Pentaho and Cloudera share a common history and approach to simplifying complex, but powerful technologies to integrate and analyze big data. Our common open source heritage means that we can innovate at the speed of our customers businesses.

What is Cloudera’s latest Innovation? Cloudera Impala powers Cloudera Enterprise RTQ (Real-time Query), the first data management solution that takes Hadoop beyond batch to enable real-time data processing and analysis on any type of data (unstructured and structured) within a centralized, massively scalable system. Impala dramatically improves the economics and performance of large-scale enterprise data management.

Pentaho and Cloudera Impala in 5 words = Affordable scalability meets fast analytics. Cloudera Imapala enables any product that is JDBC-enabled to get fast results from Hadoop, making Hadoop an ideal component for a data warehouse strategy. Customers no longer have to pay for expensive proprietary DBMS or analytical DBs to house their entire data warehouse.

Cloudera’s innovation makes it even easier for customers to use common analytic tools that can access and analyze data in all of these formats. What does this really mean? It means you don’t have buy expensive, proprietary products that can’t work across all of your data platforms.

With Pentaho and Cloudera you can quickly analyze large volumes of disparate data significantly faster with Impala than with Hive. Take a look at how Cloudera Impala is driving a major evolutionary step in the growth of the company’s Platform for Big Data, Cloudera Enterprise, and the Apache Hadoop ecosystem as a whole.

Richard Daley

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Impala – A New Era for BI on Hadoop

November 30, 2012

With the recent announcement of Impala, also known as Cloudera Enterprise RTQ (Real Time Query), I expect the interest in and adoption of Hadoop to go from merely intense to crazy.  We applaud Cloudera’s investment in creating Impala as it moves Hadoop a huge step forward in making Hadoop accessible using existing BI tools.

What is Impala?  Simply put, it enables all of the SQL-based BI and business analytics tools that have been built over the past couple of decades to now work directly on top of Hadoop, providing interactive response times not previously attainable with Hadoop, and many times faster than Hive, the existing SQL-like alternative. And Impala provides pretty complete SQL support, including join and aggregate functions – must-have functions for analytics.

For enterprises this analytic query speed and expressiveness is huge – it means they are now much less likely to need to extract data out of Hadoop and load it into a data mart or warehouse for interactive visualization.  Instead they can use their favorite business analytics tool directly against Hadoop. But of course only Pentaho provides the integrated end-to-end data integration and business analytics capability for both ingesting and processing data inside of Hadoop, as well as interactively visualizing and analyzing Hadoop data.

Over the past few months Cloudera and Pentaho have been partnering closely at all levels including marketing, sales and engineering.  We are proud of the role we played in assisting Cloudera with validating and testing Impala against realistic BI workloads and use cases.  Based on the extremely strong interest we’ve seen, as evidenced by the lines at our booth at the recent Strata big data conference in New York City, the combination of Pentaho’s visual development and interactive visualization for Hadoop with the break-through performance of Cloudera Impala is very compelling for a huge number of enterprises.

- Ian Fyfe, Chief Technology Evangelist, Pentaho

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Pentaho Joins Dell Partner Program for Big Data

June 13, 2012

The opportunity that big data analytics provides for organizations to innovate quickly, predict events and improve customer relationships is endless. Our own customers including Shareable Ink, Travian Games and TravelTainment are using big data analytics today to analyze clinical data, innovate computer games and design targeted promotional campaigns – just to name a few.

Two key themes in of our vision for the future of analytics are to integrate with the leading technology partners in the big data analytics ecosystem and to enable cloud-ready applications.  In light of this, I am incredibly pleased to announce that today Pentaho is part of Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, a new partnership program announced last April with the aim of focusing on cloud and big data enablement.

Pentaho’s big data analytics software will be offered with the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution, which brings together Cloudera’s distribution of Apache Hadoop, Dell’s hardware reference architecture and Dell’s Crowbar software, which automates and accelerates the deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of your cloud or cluster environment. The combined solution will also be offered with joint services and support.

What does this mean? I’ve had many conversations this year with customers who’ve told us they need to ‘operationalize’ Hadoop and that’s exactly what this partnership is about.  In a nutshell, this partnership makes it faster and easier for organizations to gain total insight from all their data through a single appliance that combines Hadoop integration, data integration and out-of-the-box analytics.

Why did Dell select Pentaho to be part of the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution? A major factor is that we were one of the first movers in the space announcing support for Big Data in May 2010 and we have many customers doing real work with big data.  We’ve also been working with Cloudera since October 2010 and have a longstanding strategic relationship with them, which includes technology integration.

The partnership means that Dell’s dedicated, big data sales team will now be reselling Pentaho directly into existing and new Dell accounts, initially in North America and other parts of the world very soon.  The Dell partnership also further commercializes Pentaho’s relationship with Cloudera by providing a vehicle to bring a big data offering to the market.

We look forward to helping you achieve your business goals through this important new partnership. For more information about Pentaho and Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem please visit pentaho.com/big-data/dell/.

Quentin

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