2020 may well go down as the year where what seems impossible today, did become possible tomorrow. It’s been a year filled with disruption and uncertainty. One day we were all going to the office, and the next we were working from home. Businesses had to literally switch operations, and enable better collaboration and access to data in an instant — while streamlining processes to accommodate a whole new way of doing things.

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is implemented by the US federal government to provide a direct incentive for businesses to keep their employees on the payroll, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. PPP assists qualified businesses retain their workforce as well as help pay for related business expenses. Data from the US Treasury website show which companies received PPP loans and how many jobs were retained. The US Treasury approved approximately one million PPP loans across the US.

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud is the most comprehensive on-premises platform for integrated analytics and data management. It combines the best of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise Plus, and brings the latest and greatest open source technologies for data management and analytics to the data center. With the latest version (7) of CDP Private Cloud, we’ve introduced a number of new features and enhancements.

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are in the middle of a data-driven transformation. The current scale and pace of change in the Telecommunications sector is being driven by the rapid evolution of new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, advanced data analytics and edge computing. This is opening up new revenue opportunities, use cases and even the possibility for different types of business models within the sector, changing the way that CSPs operate.

The Cloudera Support Organization has always strived to not only provide solutions to our customers but to also deliver helpful knowledge. One of the primary sources of that knowledge comes from our Knowledge Articles. This content is created and curated by our knowledgeable Support Staff based on real-world experience coming from support cases. These Knowledge Articles have proven to be invaluable to our Support Staff over the years.

One of the key challenges of building an enterprise-class robust scalable storage system is to validate the system under duress and failing system components. This includes, but is not limited to: failed networks, failed or failing disks, arbitrary delays in the network or IO path, network partitions, and unresponsive systems.

The current economic climate has meant a sudden and seismic step-change in how many of our customers operate. The recent shift to remote working has seen an increase in conversations around how data is managed, with many businesses needing to achieve democratic data access in order to derive value and improve efficiencies as we navigate the ‘new norm’. Toolsets and strategies have had to shift to ensure controlled access to data.

We recently Googled the manufacturing use case “predictive maintenance” and was astonished by the results there were 82 MILLION results returned. Next, we Googled “process optimization” and it yielded even more results – 302 MILLION. Clearly, these use cases are top of mind in today’s manufacturing landscape, considering digital transformation will deliver $11 Trillion USD in economic value by 2025.

The Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service is a managed data warehouse that runs Cloudera’s powerful engines on a containerized architecture. It is part of the new Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, which went live on Microsoft Azure earlier this year. The CDW service lets you meet SLAs, onboard new use cases with zero friction, and minimize cost. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of CDW on Microsoft Azure.