Erin Hawley serves as director of national security programs at Cloudera, an integrator of open source technologies such as Hadoop for federal agencies and commercial businesses. Hawley joined Cloudera in December 2011 after five years at Composite Software and is also a veteran of firms such as Blackboard and Sun Microsystems. In this conversation with […] More

Cloudera has been chosen by CounterTack to equip the latter’s Sentinel endpoint big data technology with its data hub infrastructure that works to protect servers, workstations, laptops and other endpoints across corporate networks from malicious malware and potential cyber attacks. The Apache Hadoop-based Cloudera Enterprise platform seeks to support more than 100,000 endpoint deployments and facilitate real-time analysis of […] More

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to uncover market manipulation incidents. The […] More

Health IT company Cerner Corp. has selected Cloudera’s enterprise data hub to power its big data platform in an effort to analyze healthcare information and improve patient outcomes. Mike Olson, founder and chief strategy officer for Cloudera, said Thursday the company will work with Cerner “to capture, organize, analyze and act” on healthcare data from […] More

Kate Tong serves as senior manager for public sector marketing at Cloudera, where she oversees the strategic direction of marketing communications to reach potential clients in the public sector. Her responsibilities include customer acquisition and retention, events and promotions, marketing programs, thought leadership and reseller and technology partnerships. Tong initially worked as senior manager of field marketing when she […] More

Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More

Red Hat and Cloudera have partnered to combine their enterprise software services in an effort to help customers extract value from big data. The team will provide open and agile technology stack to aid clients in deploying big data solutions on premises and in various cloud platforms, Red Hat said Thursday. Scott Musson, vice president of global […] More

Mercedes Westcott serves as vice president of public sector at Cloudera and also is a member of the federal advisory board at Threatstream. Prior to Cloudera, Westcott was vice president of public sector at Delphix. Westcott is also a former vice president at HP Enterprise Security Software, which she joined through HP’s acquisition of ArcSight, where she was director of […] More

Cloudera and Teradata have expanded their partnership with the goal of rolling their enterprise data hub and warehouse products into a single big data management system. The companies also agreed to collaborate on software integration, go-to-market strategies, product reselling, and support services, Teradata said Thursday. According to Teradata, the alliance seeks to help enterprises analyze […] More

(INFORMATIONWEEK)–“The leading Hadoop platform is now the most secure.” Commercial Hadoop vendor Cloudera announced Tuesday that they had successfully purchased big data security firm Gazzang, stepping up their game to offer their customers encryption as well as security solutions to issues of storing, processing and analyzing of data. VP of products Charles Zedlewski says that […] More

Kim Stevenson, corporate vice president and chief information officer of Intel, has been appointed to the board of directors at enterprise data management firm Cloudera. “Kim’s experience and strategic role as CIO of Intel are particularly valuable as she represents the voice of the customer and has a deep understanding of how data and insight can transform […] More

DigitalGlobe has partnered with Cloudera to develop a new geospatial analytics technology intended to help customers fulfill security and governance requirements. Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said DigitalGlobe intends to build the geospatial big data analytic tool around Cloudera’s Enterprise Data Hub, DigitalGlobe said Friday. The analytics system will work to collect […] More