Cloudera Announces Strategic Alliance With SAS Institute

Cloudera, Inc.,
that sets the standard for Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, announced
a strategic business alliance with SAS Institute,
Inc. to further integrate analytics with Hadoop environments for large
enterprises.

Customers are now empowered to analyze their data in
Hadoop by connecting SAS directly to their Cloudera-powered big data
repositories. Cloudera’s Platform for big data offers the power of Hadoop
to SAS customers, enabling them to explore and analyze all of
their Hadoop-based data through familiar and SAS data
management and analytics products.

Users can now analyze all of their Hadoop-based structured and unstructured
data and seize new opportunities to derive actionable insight.

"Due to the
continued growth of big data and increased adoption of Hadoop by SAS customers,
cloudera was an obvious alliance addition for SAS," said Scott
VanValkenburgh, SAS senior director of Alliances. "Their platform is well-suited to address our customers’ desire for SAS
and Hadoop integration."

Leveraging SAS data management tools with Hadoop’s
open platform and parallel architecture, business analysts can instantly query
data in Hadoop without additional training. Through the partnership, SAS will
contribute to Cloudera University’s global training programs, which have
trained more than 15,000 Hadoop developers, administrators and data scientists
since inception.

Additionally, the companies will conduct joint R&D projects to continue
advancing big data analytics with Hadoop for the enterprise.

"SAS and Cloudera share a common vision of delivering access to more data across the
enterprise, and we look forward to the benefits our alliance relationship will
bring to companies worldwide. By combining SAS Data Management, SAS High-Performance
Analytics software and SAS Visual Analytics software with Hadoop, we make it
possible for more users to uncover important insights that are trapped in large
amounts of data," said Tim Stevens, VP, business and corporate
development at Cloudera.

Cloudera and SAS to
Present Together at SAS Global Forum
Highlighting the new business advantages of the Cloudera and SAS alliance, the
companies presented during two panel sessions at the SAS Global Forum
2013, April 28 – May 1 in San Francisco, CA.