As I meet with our customers, there are always a range of discussions regarding the use of the cloud for financial services data and analytics. Customers vary widely on the topic of public cloud – what data sources, what use cases are right for public cloud deployments – beyond sandbox, experimentation efforts. Private cloud continues to gain traction with firms realizing the benefits of greater flexibility and dynamic scalability.

According to 451 Research, 96% of enterprises are actively pursuing a hybrid IT strategy. Modern, real-time businesses require accelerated cycles of innovation that are expensive and difficult to maintain with legacy data platforms. Cloud technologies and respective service providers have evolved solutions to address these challenges.

The start of a new year is a perfect time to reflect on what was accomplished and look forward, re-evaluate what we can do better. Change, although difficult at first, can also be very rewarding. That’s why I was excited to see similar sentiments shared at Thoughtspot beyond.2021 to move beyond the traditional dashboards of the past.

This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The architecture reflects the four pillars of security engineering best practice, Perimeter, Data, Access and Visibility. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Before diving into the technologies it is worth becoming familiar with the key security principle of a layered approach that facilitates defense in depth.

We are excited to announce the release of Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA) 1.6 for CDP Private Cloud Base. With this release, we build on the foundation on 1.4 and 1.5 – with a number of fixes, enhancements, and features. Starting with this release, we now have an aligned release cycle for CSA Community Edition (CE). You can now expect simultaneous releases of CSA for both CE and CDP Private Cloud Base versions.

Gartner® recognized Cloudera in three recent reports – Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS), Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Analytical Use Cases and Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases.