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Skytap Introduces Cloudera Hadoop for Enterprise Hybrid Clouds
SEATTLE, WA, Jan 16, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation
solutions, today announced the availability of pre-configured
Cloudera Hadoop (CDH4) Enterprise templates in the Skytap Cloud
public template library. With the release, Skytap's enterprise
customers gain on-demand, self-service access to Cloudera's leading
open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, including the Cloudera
Enterprise free edition, which can be used to deploy and manage
physical or virtual clusters of up to 50 nodes. Skytap's Cloudera
Hadoop templates are ideal for enterprise developers, testers, data
scientists and IT professionals who are interested in quickly
learning more about Hadoop, experimenting with its capabilities, and
developing proof-of-concepts for big data offerings.
"Big data has such a vast size that it exceeds the capacity of
traditional data management technologies; it requires the use of new
or exotic technologies simply to manage the volume alone," said Mark
Beyer, research vice president at Gartner in a report titled "'Big
Data' Is Only The Beginning of Extreme Information Management." "The
largest datasets will require the use of public or private cloud
computing resources to achieve periodic and on-demand scaling."
With Skytap's enterprise-ready Cloudera Hadoop templates, customers
can easily create virtual Hadoop cluster environments in less than
ten minutes, without the need to procure costly in-house hardware.
The Skytap templates allow users to create, spin-up, suspend, save,
and tear down Hadoop clusters of various sizes as needed. The
templates also eliminate the complexity and time required to manually
download, install, configure, and network together all of the
required software and hardware components -- providing Skytap
customers with unprecedented fast and easy access to Hadoop clusters.
Using Skytap Cloud's multi-VPN capability, Skytap customers can
create a secure hybrid cloud and gain added flexibility to run Hadoop
cluster nodes on-premise coupled with additional Hadoop cluster nodes
that run in Skytap Cloud. This enables fast, on-demand scaling of
Hadoop cluster environments for periodic project needs where large
datasets require additional compute, memory, storage, and networking
resources. The hybrid cloud Hadoop cluster can be managed as a
single, unified cluster on-premise or from within Skytap Cloud. This
provides customers with a flexible option to periodically scale-out
Hadoop clusters on-demand using a combination of on-premise and
securely connected hybrid cloud compute resources. Customers benefit
from increased speed and flexibility, and avoid the cost of
purchasing additional on-premise hardware to meet peak scaling needs.
The pre-installed, pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates in Skytap
Cloud include cluster compute nodes and a management/server node
featuring Cloudera Manager, a full-featured automation tool for CDH
clusters. The templates provide enterprise users with complete
multi-machine, multi-networked environments, and enable users with
fast, remote access and root-level control of all virtual machines
(VMs). To help customers scale Hadoop clusters to fit their needs,
Skytap Cloud offers a base Cloudera CDH4 Hadoop multi-node cluster
template plus an additional single-node template that allows for the
easy, fast addition of more nodes to the base cluster. Using the
Cloudera Manager Free edition, users can perform basic configuration
and administration tasks for HDFS, MapReduce, Hue, Oozie and
ZooKeeper.
By deploying Hadoop clusters within Skytap Cloud, users also benefit
from Skytap's SmartClient(TM), AutoNetworks(TM), CloudControl(TM) and
SmartShare(TM) technologies. Virtual environments are automatically
networked and isolated, multi-VPN connections create a secure hybrid
cloud extension to on-premise datacenters, users have fast, remote
root access to all machines, and IT has visibility, control, and
management of Skytap Cloud resources.
"Hadoop has forever changed the way enterprises manage big data.
Skytap is transforming the way businesses deploy and benefit from big
data solutions by introducing Cloudera Hadoop templates for
enterprise hybrid clouds," said Brad Schick, vice president of
engineering at Skytap. "By utilizing Cloudera Hadoop within Skytap
Cloud, businesses can drive faster time to value by eliminating the
need to procure in-house hardware and avoid the complexity and
expertise required to download, install and configure all of the
required components. For engineers, the environment is right there in
Skytap Cloud and ready to go."
About Skytap, Inc.
Skytap is the leading provider of self-service
cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads. Skytap Cloud gives
businesses a fast, easy, and secure way to create complex computing
environments in the cloud. Customers can run enterprise applications
unchanged in the cloud, collaborate securely with global teams, and
gain unparalleled business productivity. Additionally, IT
organizations maintain full visibility and control over cloud
projects, align capacity with demand, and reduce costs. Enterprises
can securely connect Skytap Cloud to their data centers and create
hybrid clouds. Skytap is ideal for any dynamic workload including
development and testing, software demos and evaluations, and virtual
training. To try Skytap Cloud and learn more, visit www.skytap.com.
Contact:
Lindsey Bradshaw
Barokas Public Relations
Email Contact
206-264-8220
SOURCE: Skytap
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