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Big Data Firm Cloudera Forms Incubation Lab for Open Source Initiatives

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Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop, announced the formation of Cloudera Labs, a virtual center for fostering innovations in incubation within Cloudera’s engineering R&D, and fast-tracking promising open source initiatives. Cloudera intents to use the Labs is to bring more use cases, productivity, and value to developers by seeking and exploring new solutions to their problems through the development of future standard technologies that will power the Hadoop ecosystem.

The Apache Hadoop software provider has recently released version 5.2 of Cloudera Enterprise, its data analytics management solution for Hadoop.

According to Cloudera, one of the most promising projects under way across the Hadoop ecosystem is Apache Kafka, a highly-scalable and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka, founded and in production at LinkedIn, can broker terabytes of data from thousands of users across a single cluster serving as the backbone for any large organization. Kafka is already well integrated with systems like Spark Streaming. Cloudera added that it will explore Kafka further in support of applications that would immediately benefit from such elasticity, scale, and performance using a distributed messaging system.

Charles Zedlewski, Vice President, Products at Cloudera
To realize their true potential, projects often benefit from a collaborative approach where they can be explored and developed more deeply – and looked at from every angle. As our roots are deeply embedded in the open source community and driving open standards, the desire to foster, nurture, collaborate, and bring to market solutions that our customers require runs deep. We’ve formed Cloudera Labs to do that at an accelerated rate.

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