Revolution Analytics Partners With Cloudera To Deliver Comprehensive New Big Analytics Solution

New Solution Integrates R with Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop to Deliver Powerful Solution to Tame Big Data

PALO ALTO, Calif.--()--Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of R software, services and support, today announced a partnership with Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, to deliver a joint solution for Big Analytics that runs R analytics in the Revolution R Enterprise platform on Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH).

“RevoConnectR for Apache Hadoop” is a collection of open-source packages that allows R programmers to access Hadoop HDFS and HBASE data stores in Apache Hadoop directly from R and write MapReduce jobs with R. The packages are now available to download for free from the RHadoop Project on GitHub (https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/RHadoop/wiki) and will be commercially supported for Apache Hadoop with Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 Server for Linux.

In recent years, the explosion of enterprise data has necessitated a significant uptick in new data infrastructure investments. Apache Hadoop has emerged as a leading solution for companies looking to store and manage large structured and unstructured data sets. Meanwhile, R has rapidly become the tool of choice for modeling and running advanced analytics. Together, Revolution Analytics and Cloudera deliver one of the most powerful and cost-effective Big Analytics solutions on the market, uniting R with the complete Apache Hadoop stack to streamline and simplify the path to deriving competitive intelligence and actionable insights from the deluge big data.

“The combination of R and Apache Hadoop creates a more powerful analytics solution than what’s previously been on the market for big data. R users can now leverage advanced analytics and data stored in Apache Hadoop to tap into more multifaceted dimensions of their data,” said Norman Nie, CEO of Revolution Analytics. “R and Hadoop are inherently complementary, but the technology combination has unique technical challenges to overcome to work seamlessly and effectively. Revolution Analytics is pleased to partner with Cloudera to deliver an intuitive solution that bridges these gaps and minimizes complexity to help users realize the potential of R and Apache Hadoop”.

“Running advanced analytics on unstructured data has historically been challenging and cost prohibitive. It is not a coincidence that some of the fastest growing businesses in the last decade are the same organizations that invested in infrastructure to model and derive insight from the new classes of data being generated,” said Ed Albanese, Head of Business Development at Cloudera. “This solution, which combines the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop with Revolution Analytics Enterprise R, is about democratizing access to technologies uniquely capable of performing analysis on these new classes of data. Cloudera is pleased to partner with Revolution Analytics to deliver an accessible, integrated analytics solution for unstructured data”.

Revolution Analytics is delivering on its vision and commitment to provide its customers with the flexibility to leverage R-enabled analytics with the data infrastructure platform of their choice. Through RevoScaleR, the data industry’s first commercially supported solution that gives open source R the power to scale, Revolution Analytics offers companies the right algorithms and data visualization tools to process large data sets.

For more information on supporting Big Analytics with R and Apache Hadoop, visit www.cloudera.com and www.revolutionanalytics.com.

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About Cloudera

Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all their structured and unstructured data. Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), available to download for free at www.cloudera.com/downloads, is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop in commercial and non-commercial environments. For the fastest path to reliably using this completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache technologies. As the top contributor to the Apache open source community and with tens of thousands of nodes under management across customers in financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university research, oil and gas and gaming, Cloudera's depth of experience and commitment to sharing expertise are unrivaled. www.cloudera.com

About Revolution Analytics

Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. Led by predictive analytics pioneer Norman Nie, the company brings high performance, productivity and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. The company’s flagship Revolution R product is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing and media. Used by over 2 million analysts in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the continued growth of the R community through sponsorship of the Inside-R.org community site, funding worldwide R user groups and offers free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to everyone in academia.

Contacts

LEWIS Pulse PR for Revolution Analytics
Jasmine Teer, + 1-415-321-2348
jasmine.teer@lewispulse.com

Contacts

LEWIS Pulse PR for Revolution Analytics
Jasmine Teer, + 1-415-321-2348
jasmine.teer@lewispulse.com