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The 4 keys to a successful manufacturing IIOT pilot

If you have read our previous post focusing on the challenges of planning, launching and scaling IIOT use cases, you’ve narrowed down the business problems you’re trying to solve, and you have a plan that is both created by the implementation team and supported by executive management. Here’s a plan to make sure you’ve got it all down. Think of these success factors like the legs of a kitchen table and the results that you desire, a bowl of homemade chicken soup.

Cloudera Streaming Analytics 1.4: the unification of SQL batch and streaming

In October of 2020 Cloudera acquired Eventador and Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA) 1.3.0 was released early in 2021. It was the first release to incorporate SQL Stream Builder (SSB) from the acquisition, and brought rich SQL processing to the already robust Apache Flink offering. The team’s focus turned to bringing Flink Data Definition Language (DDL) and the batch interface into SSB with that completed.

What is new in Cloudera Streaming Analytics 1.4?

At the end of March, we released the first version of Cloudera SQL StreamBuilder as part of CSA 1.3. It enabled users to easily write, run and manage real-time SQL queries on streams from Apache Kafka with an exceptionally smooth user experience. Since then, we have been working hard to expose the full power of Apache Flink SQL and the existing Data Warehousing tools in CDP to combine it into a state-of-the-art real-time analytics platform.

Cloudera named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021

Cloudera has been named as a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave for Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021. We are excited to be recognized in this wave at, what we consider to be, such a strong position. We are proud to have been named as one of “The 14 providers that matter most” in streaming analytics. The report states that richness of analytics, development tool options and near-effortless scalability are what streaming analytics customers should look for in a provider.

Validations - Cloudera Support's Predictive Alerting Program

Cloudera Support’s cluster validations proactively identify known problem signatures contained in customers’ diagnostic data with the goal of increasing cluster health, performance, and overall stability. Cluster validations are included in a customer’s enterprise subscription at no additional cost. All customers with access to the Support case portal will also be able to take advantage of cluster validations.

Modernizing Data Pipelines using Cloudera Data Platform - Part 1

Data pipelines are in high demand in today’s data-driven organizations. As critical elements in supplying trusted, curated, and usable data for end-to-end analytic and machine learning workflows, the role of data pipelines is becoming indispensable. To keep up, data pipelines are being vigorously reshaped with modern tools and techniques.

Apache Ozone Metadata Explained

Apache Ozone is a distributed object store built on top of Hadoop Distributed Data Store service. It can manage billions of small and large files that are difficult to handle by other distributed file systems. As an important part of achieving better scalability, Ozone separates the metadata management among different services: Ozone Manager (OM) service manages the metadata of the namespace such as volume, bucket and keys.

The Ethics of AI Comes Down to Conscious Decisions

This blog post was written by Pedro Pereira as a guest author for Cloudera. Right now, someone somewhere is writing the next fake news story or editing a deepfake video. An authoritarian regime is manipulating an artificial intelligence (AI) system to spy on technology users. No matter how good the intentions behind the development of a technology, someone is bound to corrupt and manipulate it. Big data and AI amplify the problem. “If you have good intentions, you can make it very good.