Electricity is fundamental to our society. As climate change becomes more severe and demand for clean energy increases, the future is the electrification of everything and along with it, the need for reliable energy. The U.S. infrastructure spans over a vast 200,000 miles and inspecting all of it is a time-consuming and high-risk process that often calls for hanging from helicopters or climbing tall towers. It is inefficient, costly, and dangerous.
After the launch of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) on AWS a few months ago, we are thrilled to announce that CDF-PC is now generally available on Microsoft Azure, allowing NiFi users on Azure to run their data flows in a cloud-native runtime. With CDF-PC, NiFi users can import their existing data flows into a central catalog from where they can be deployed to a Kubernetes based runtime through a simple flow deployment wizard or with a single CLI command.
As a modern, data-driven organization, you are likely pulling data from a multitude of diverse sources. There’s consumer data from marketing programs, CRM, and point of sale systems, plus financial data from accounting software and banking services. Finally, there is product data from user logs and web applications. With so much data pouring in every day, it feels like you should have everything you need to answer any question that could arise. And yet, so many times you don’t.
