CenturyLink has expanded partnership with Cloudera to offer a fully managed big data solution powered by Cloudera Enterprise to enable customers to gain value from all their data.
According to Cloudera, the combined big data-as-a-service offering will exponentially speed time to deploy Cloudera Enterprise and also simplify some of the management complexities from Hadoop operations, so that customers can spend more time working with data and generating new insights that drive business growth.
By leveraging Cloudera Enterprise, CenturyLink will gain a more complete view of its customers across all its systems, products, and diverse interaction channels, said Cloudera. This entails integrating all existing data sources and ingesting real-time data.
CenturyLink will also use the Cloudera platform to perform advanced analytics in the areas of Software Defined Networks as well as Network Virtualization to proactively monitor and further optimize its global communications network.
Both companies plan to launch the big data-as-a-service solutions later this year.
Gary Gauba, president, CenturyLink Cognilytics
CenturyLink and Cloudera are aligned not just from a technology standpoint, but also in our shared interest in helping customers get more value out of all of their data. That’s why in addition to offering a platform for big data management and analytics in the cloud, we are also focused on delivering value-added use cases that run on this platform and help our customers become more agile and responsive.
Tom Reilly, chief executive officer, Cloudera
CenturyLink’s big data-as-a-service offerings will make concepts like advanced analytics, machine learning, and real-time data more available and accessible to more people.
