Cloudwick Receives Prestigious 2014 Data Impact Award

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2014) - Strata + Hadoop World NY (Booth 236) -- Cloudwick, the leading big data production consulting and services provider to the Fortune 1000, is pleased to announce it has been recognized by Cloudera with a 2014 Data Impact Award in the "Community Contribution" category. The winners were announced at an awards dinner and ceremony on Wednesday, October 15^th in New York City, in tandem with the Strata + Hadoop World conference.

Presented by Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, this award program recognizes innovative, mature and results-oriented CDH use cases that are driving major advancements across industry verticals. Award winners were decided by thought leaders from across the enterprise management industry, including representatives from Gartner, Ovum, Project Florida, GovLoop, Crucial Point, Capgemini, O'Reilly, Fast Forward Labs, Cisco, DataKind, Intel, and IDC.

"This year's winners are putting Big Data to work in ways that deliver tangible benefits to organizations and the industry as a whole," said Alan Saldich, vice president, Marketing, Cloudera. "Cloudwick has been recognized for its advanced work with a large computer storage and data management company. Cloudwick drove the proliferation of best practices and shared those with users across the globe, including a 2,700-member Cloudwick-initiated Hyderabad Hadoop User Group. Cloudwick's community participation is key to driving industry innovation."

"Our mission is to enable Fortune 1000 organizations to accelerate their big data strategies successfully, and the use case for which we were nominated for the Data Impact Award, among others, is a great example of Cloudwick's extensive DevOps experience and expertise," said Mani Chhabra, CEO of Cloudwick. "We're proud to receive this prestigious award from Cloudera."

See 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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