Cloudera, the modern platform for machine learning and analytics, optimised for the cloud, has launched Cloudera SDX, a modular software framework that enables companies to have a “shared data experience”.
By applying a centralised, consistent framework for schema, security, governance, data ingest and more, SDX makes it possible for dozens of different customer applications to run against shared or overlapping sets of data. SDX makes multifunction data applications easier to develop, less expensive to deploy and more consistently secure.
Addressing many of today’s executive-level initiatives - cybersecurity, connecting products and services, increasing the lifetime value of a customer and more - typically requires several different complex applications working together. For example, Internet of things (IoT) applications often involve ingest, ad hoc analytics, and machine learning on batch and streaming data. Next-best-offer platforms use machine learning and real-time processing together. In many cases these multifunction application clusters either run on cloud infrastructure or rely on data that was generated in the cloud.
Developing and delivering these complex applications is a challenge in multi-tenant clusters on-premises, and is particularly difficult in cloud environments because data context and policies do not persist in transient environments. Furthermore, most cloud services are actually siloed applications running in isolated clusters.
SDX enables customers to create, govern, secure, and manage these multifunction, high-value analytic applications. SDX also facilitates Cloudera-certified partner solutions that integrate with and further enhance platform capabilities.
A key component within Cloudera SDX is a shared data catalogue upon which consistent security, governance, and management functions can be established and leveraged for both long-running and transient analytics applications. The shared catalogue also enables self-service access to business data, because IT is no longer required to recreate context and controls for each new use case.
“Companies often cite security, governance, and complexity among their primary reasons for not moving their operational workloads to cloud,” said Tony Baer, Principal Analyst at Ovum. “Cloudera has planted its stake in the ground by building in the security and data governance features to make companies confident in standing up their big data workloads in production. Cloudera SDX builds on the company’s IP with a shared data experience across cloud and on-premises environments.”
Cloudera SDX addresses the following business challenges:
Siloed data
Self-service clusters in the cloud do not naturally share data and metadata, so individual clusters become de facto silos. By sharing persistent data and metadata across on-demand applications and transient clusters, Cloudera customers can stay agile and ensure each isolated cluster does not require individual control and management nor incur the additional cost of data replication and storage.
Security breaches
Without centralised security controls, administrators are forced to continuously reapply security and access policies against multiple copies of siloed data, creating extra work and greater risk of exposing sensitive information. With Cloudera SDX, security is applied consistently at the data level. Policies are pervasive and do not need to change or be reapplied when the data is moved or used within a new analytics application.
Governance challenges/noncompliance
A shared data and metadata catalogue is imperative for dealing with HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliance today and for looming requirements like GDPR. A shared data catalogue makes it easy to quickly find and understand the context of data, enabling self-service applications and providing inviolable audit and lineage functionality.
“SDX is the ‘secret sauce’ within Cloudera Enterprise that accelerates data science, machine learning, and analytics,” said Mike Olson, founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. “Data is the world’s most valuable resource. It is the fuel that drives insights, powers machines, and solves impossible problems. From day one Cloudera’s focus has been on helping companies extract value from their data. Cloudera SDX simplifies this mission for IT and business users alike.”
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