Zoomdata Integrates With Microsoft Azure HDInsight to Deliver Cloud-Native Big Data Visual Analytics for Hadoop

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 24, 2015) - Zoomdata, developers of one of the world's fastest visual analytics solution for big data, today announced that it is a certified partner on the Azure Marketplace. Microsoft Azure customers seeking to capitalize on the performance of big data can now use Azure's one-click deployment to activate the Zoomdata Server, along with its Cloudera, Hortonworks and Spark smart connectors. Microsoft's customers and partners seeking to deliver visual analytic solutions for big data can now take advantage of Zoomdata's multi-tenant, distributed architecture to make business users more productive in leveraging actionable insights about their organization's big data.

Zoomdata is one of the first business intelligence solutions natively architected for cloud deployment on an optimized microservices architecture. The company's patented, breakthrough Data Sharpening™ delivers one of the fastest visual analytics on big data sets, while Zoomdata Fusion enables the joining of big data with other modern and traditional datastores in the cloud or on-premises. And through Azure HDInsight, Zoomdata gives enterprise business units the ability to run Hadoop distributions from Cloudera or Hortonworks to access the power of big data visual analytics without hiring teams of dedicated business intelligence and data science experts.

Benefits of Zoomdata Certified on Azure:

• Launch Zoomdata from the Azure Marketplace;
• Complimentary 30-day trial or purchase a license;
• One-click deployment to stand up a Zoomdata instance and connect it to Cloudera or Hortonworks Hadoop cluster or connect to a Spark cluster;
• Connect to traditional data sources like SQL Server;
• Zoomdata Fusion enables queries to be run across multiple data sources;
• Zoomdata-to-Zoomdata Connectivity delivers distributed analytics, including between on-premises and in the cloud;
• Full-featured visual analytics for HDInsight;
• Zoomdata cloud channel packages available to certified Microsoft partners with free training programs, low-cost developer licenses and support for delivering packaged services and support.

"Microsoft is an ideal associate for Zoomdata because of its global reputation for meeting the cloud computing demands of the world's largest companies," said Justin Langseth, CEO of Zoomdata. "For enterprises looking for an on-demand solution that delivers fast visual analytics on Hadoop and big data, Azure and HDInsight paired with Zoomdata are a powerful combination of performance and ease of use. We look forward to working with Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of solutions on Hadoop among the Global 2000."

"With the growth of cloud-native applications, Microsoft sees data analytics also moving to the cloud. This introduces new challenges for integrating multiple data sources," said Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Data Platform. "Zoomdata offers a business intelligence solution architected specifically for multi-tenant cloud deployment, and designed for joining and visualizing big datasets and other traditional enterprise data stores."

Enterprise computing workloads of all kinds are rapidly shifting to the cloud. According to Goldman Sachs, spending on cloud computing will grow at 30 percent CAGR through 2018 compared to only 5 percent growth of overall IT spending. Azure is the fastest-growing major public cloud, nearly doubling year-over-year with thousands of customers worldwide, according to Synergy Research Group.

Zoomdata is optimized for cloud delivery through its unique native micro-services architecture that allows for unmatched elasticity and scalability. Zoomdata makes it possible for organizations to do true hybrid cloud computing, linking big data analytics in the cloud with analytics on-premises for unmatched continuous analytics capabilities.

To take advantage of the Azure HDInsight and Zoomdata complimentary 30-day trial offer, please visit http://learn.zoomdata.com/Azure.

About Zoomdata, Inc.
Zoomdata develops the world's fastest visual analytics solution for big data. Using patented data sharpening and micro-query technologies, Zoomdata empowers business users to visually consume data in seconds, even across billions of rows of data. Zoomdata Fusion enables interactive analytics across disparate data sources, bridging modern and legacy data architectures, blending real-time streams and historical data, and unifying enterprise data with data in the cloud. Delivered in a micro-services architecture for elastic scalability, Zoomdata runs on premises, in the cloud, hybrid cloud or embedded in an application. With offices in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley, Zoomdata is venture-backed by Accel Partners, Columbus Nova Technology Partners and NEA. Test drive Zoomdata today! Join the Early Access Program at no charge.