Cloudwick Announces Cloudera Security Practice

Cloudwick to Provide Cloudera Navigator Installation and Support


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2014) - Strata + Hadoop World -- Cloudwick, the leading big data production consulting and services provider to the Fortune 1000, today announced that Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, has certified its global team of Big Data experts to provide installation, training, services and support for Cloudera Navigator.

Cloudera Navigator is the only native end-to-end governance solution for Apache Hadoop-based systems and is a key part to meeting enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements. Cloudera Navigator provides visibility for administrators, data managers, data scientists, and analysts to secure, govern, and explore the large amounts of diverse data that land in Hadoop.

Cloudwick is certified to provide existing Cloudera Navigator subscription customers with installation of an encrypted cluster and training on proper practices for user administration and management of Cloudera Navigator Encrypt. Cloudwick has expertise in enabling customers who want to use Cloudera Navigator for use cases that span Cloudera Enterprise and many popular NoSQL environments, including MongoDB, Cassandra and MySQL.

"Security is essential for global enterprises when it comes to creating and operating Hadoop clusters," said Tim Stevens, vice president, Corporate and Business Development, Cloudera. "Cloudwick has considerable real-world experience with Hadoop, and we appreciate their investment in Cloudera with Certification. With this partnership, customers can be assured that they have the right security in place to achieve their big data goals."

Cloudwick enables its Fortune 1000 customers to fully and quickly benefit from the power of Cloudera enterprise data hubs through its extensive expertise with big data solutions, including more than 125,000 hours of build, operate and manage experience with more than 10,000 operational nodes. Cloudwick offers Cloudera customers a solid track record delivering results and accelerating big data journeys for global enterprises.

"Talking to our Fortune 1000 customers, we know that Hadoop is central to their big data strategies and that Cloudera is playing a pivotal role in the industry," said Mani Chhabra, CEO of Cloudwick. "The company is making tremendous contributions and we're proud to be a partner. We look forward to working closely with Cloudera and working with its customers to combine our expertise, talent and DevOps skill with Cloudera's innovation and leadership."

See Cloudera (booth 305) and Cloudwick (booth 236) at Strata + Hadoop World October 15-17 at the Javits Center, New York City.

About Cloudwick
Cloudwick is the leading big data DevOps service provider in North America providing the Fortune 1000 with production services for Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and DataStax big data clusters. Its trained and certified Hadoop and NoSQL administrators, developers and data scientists have more than 125,000 hours of enterprise production experience with leading enterprises including 3M, Bank of America, Comcast, Home Depot, Intuit, JP Morgan, NetApp, Target, Visa, Walmart, and more than 50 others enterprises. As a strategic partner to Cloudera, Hortonworks and DataStax, Cloudwick builds, operates, monitors and manages many of North America's leading big data systems. For more information, please visit www.cloudwick.com.

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