Support for unstructured data is now in public preview! That’s one of many of the exciting announcements made in September, in addition to a new serverless tasks feature, expanded public cloud regions, enhanced business continuity capabilities, and several new providers on Snowflake Data Marketplace.

As organizations wrangle with the explosive growth in data volume they are presented with today, efficiency and scalability of storage become pivotal to operating a successful data platform for driving business insight and value. Apache Ozone is a distributed, scalable, and high performance object store, available with Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud.

We’re excited to announce CDP Public Cloud Regional Control Plane in Australia and Europe. This addition will extend CDP Hybrid capabilities to customers in industries with strict data protection requirements by allowing them to govern their data entirely in-region.

It’s long been said the secret to a better answer is to ask a better question. But in the era of self-service analytics and natural language query (NLQ), it’s easier said than done.

According to Domo, on average, every human created at least 1.7 MB of data per second in 2020. That’s a lot of data. For enterprises the net result is an intricate data management challenge that’s not about to get any less complex anytime soon. Enterprises need to find a way of getting insights from this vast treasure trove of data into the hands of the people that need it. For relatively low amounts of data, public cloud is a possible path for some organizations.

At the end of May, we released the second version of Cloudera SQL Stream Builder (SSB) as part of Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA). Among other features, the 1.4 version of CSA surfaced the expressivity of Flink SQL in SQL Stream Builder via adding DDL and Catalog support, and it greatly improved the integration with other Cloudera Data Platform components, for example via enabling stream enrichment from Hive and Kudu.

When conversations turn to digital transformation, it is usually smart phone apps, dizzying feats of AI, and domestic robots that capture all the attention. But the unsung heroes of I.T. know the truth: digital infrastructure is the foundation on which data-driven transformations are built. And increasingly we’re talking about two qualities digital infrastructure must possess if it is to be an effective backbone for digital transformation.

Modak, a leading provider of modern data engineering solutions, is now a certified solution partner with Cloudera. Customers can seamlessly automate migration to Cloudera’s cloud-based enterprise platform CDP from on-prem deployments and dynamically auto-scale cloud services with Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE)’s integration with Modak Nabu™.

Providing the ability to ask questions of data is useful, but only if you can guide analytics users toward the right answers. Read: What is natural language query, anyway?

In 2020, in response to the pandemic, we saw an urgent shift to SaaS and various emerging technologies. It was covered at length in “Introducing Trends 2021 – 'The Great Digital Switch'.” Largely driven by necessity, organizations needed to make drastic moves “to keep the lights on” and cater to operations in a more virtual and remote style. This big leap forward drastically changed the IT landscape and infrastructure in a lot of organizations.