Highlights:

  • The latest change in the data industry is the data lakehouse, which combines the functions of a data warehouse and a lake on a single platform.
  • Cloudera believes that CDP One reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 20% to 35% compared to do-it-yourself cloud solutions.

Cloudera, a data company, based in Santa Clara, announced the launch of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) One, a new all-in-one Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) data lakehouse.

The offering works in tandem with the flagship CDP product launched in 2019, giving businesses a single, centralized data platform with built-in cloud compute, cloud storage, Machine Learning (ML), streaming data analytics, and enterprise-grade security. It’s meant to deliver capabilities that cover the whole data lifecycle, giving every enterprise user the ability to perform ad-hoc, highly customizable analysis and exploratory data science on any type of data (structured or unstructured).

Ultimately, this gives enterprise users a way to get faster and easier access to mission-critical business insights.

Ram Venkatesh, CTO at Cloudera, said, “Empowering everyone in your business to get the real-time insights they need to make the right decisions requires building a truly modern data architecture (lakehouse) in the cloud”. He added, “Many businesses don’t have the resources, time, or expertise to make this transformation happen. CDP One [shaves] months or even years from implementation timelines and [provides] comprehensive data security.”

Cloudera believes that CDP One reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 20% to 35% compared to do-it-yourself cloud solutions. This includes the initial setup and operations of platform ops, secops, and support. The company also says that the service uses the same Cloudera technology rated better for analytical and operational use cases than point product vendors or point services from hyperscalers.

The latest change in the data industry is the data lakehouse, which combines the functions of a data warehouse and a lake on a single platform. In this market, there is a race between companies like Databricks, Snowflake, and Dremio, which just released a free lakehouse. But Cloudera believes that most of its competitors in this space only solve part of the problem or force users to use only a small number of analytical tools, which is not the case here.

CDP One availability

Some businesses, like the travel management company CWT, can avail the new service. It will be more widely available later next year. It is run on a private, single-tenant cloud infrastructure that Cloudera manages.

“We needed to build a data lakehouse to enable more users to run analytics on their complex and sensitive data, but [who] didn’t have the right expertise to manage it or time to hire additional resources,” Gordon Coale, senior director, and enterprise architect for data at CWT, said. “CDP One rapidly delivered secure and compliant global data science and advanced analytics. The solution was ready to accept data in just two days, and some use cases went into production in just four weeks. And we did not need any new staff to make this happen.”

As the volume of enterprise data continues to expand across a variety of cloud environments and on-premises locations, it is only to be expected that the global demand for solutions such as CDP One will continue to rise. IDC predicts that by the year 2025, the total amount of data in the globe will have increased to 175 Zettabytes (Zb), up from 33 Zettabytes in 2018. That is 175 trillion USB sticks, each of which has a capacity of 1 GB.