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Cloudera Enterprise certified to run on VMware vSphere

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloudera-052213.html

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 22, 2013 — Cloudera and VMware today announced that  Cloudera Enterprise is now certified to run on  VMware vSphere®. Through the VMware Ready™ program, VMware and Cloudera completed a detailed joint validation process, which enables enterprises to simplify and accelerate the use of Apache Hadoop within virtual and cloud environments.

“As Apache Hadoop gains traction within enterprises, VMware and Cloudera are collaborating to help customers benefit from virtualizing Cloudera Enterprise, Cloudera’s platform for big data,” said Fausto Ibarra, senior director, Product Management, VMware. “VMware continues to evolve vSphere to make sure customers can take advantage of the leading platform for all their applications and workloads, including Apache Hadoop.”

VMware vSphere Offers Common Platform for Enterprise Applications including Apache Hadoop

Enterprises seeking to gain business insights and to make better decisions based on the growing volume of data generated today are increasingly adopting Apache Hadoop as a core element of their infrastructure.  Running Apache Hadoop on vSphere offers enhanced high availability, increased agility, lower TCO and better control of resources to increase hardware utilization. By virtualizing Apache Hadoop, IT departments are able to avoid the costs associated with building and operating separate physical clusters, and instead gain the benefits of pooling compute and storage resources on one common platform.

An interesting announcement from VMware and Cloudera talking about Cloudera Enterprise being certified to run on vSphere within virtual and cloud environments. This is great news for both and hopefully will remove barriers to adoption (real or perceived) and make the technology more accessible from a cost and technology standpoint.

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