Syncsort Announces Partnership with Cloudera
Syncsort today announced a technology partnership with Cloudera geared to provide mutual customers with a better to way to create competitive advantage by exploiting critical mainframe data in Hadoop for Big Data analytics.
The mainframe hosts mission critical corporate data for most of the Fortune 1000 and is an essential component to be combined with unstructured data sources, such as web logs and clickstream data. As enterprises begin their Big Data initiatives, these organizations need to develop strategies to address the unique challenges of leveraging mainframe data in Hadoop. In addition, Hadoop is providing a compelling option for organizations that are looking to offload processing of mainframe data.
"Enterprises are looking to ensure they can efficiently incorporate mainframe data into their Big Data initiatives," said Tim Stevens, vice president business and corporate development, Cloudera. "Syncsort's Hadoop ETL product, DMX-h allows market leading access to mainframe data as well as helping to reduce costs by replicating expensive mainframe batch processes in Hadoop. Combined with our best of class Hadoop distribution, customers can achieve a new level of efficiency and open the door to advanced Big Data analytics."
