Cloudera sees bigger role in Philippines as technology demand seen to rise with economic growth

Enterprise data systems provider Cloudera said it will “deepen” its commitment to the country mainly in the provision of big data management and analytics using its Hadoop technology.

Cloudera said its modern platform for data management and analytics makes use of the Apache-Hadoop platform to help businesses solve the most challenging problems with data.

“We are deepening our commitment in the Philippines,” Daniel Ng, senior director of Cloudera APAC, said.

He added the telecommunications, banking and government services are among the identified sectors that big data collection, mmanagement and analytics will benefit from Cloudera products and services ranging from the new Kufu storage engine, the first to enable analytics on real-time data, and expanding into its most comprehensive products powered by the so-called “Hadoop ecoystem.”

Ng explained that Hadoop, co-created by Dough Cutting and currently the chief architect of Cloudera, provides a system of open source components that fundamentally changed the way enterprises store, process and analyze data.

Ng said that around 60 percent of the Cloudera workforce are computer engineers.

“We are in the forefront of helping customers on how to analyze data,” he said.

Cloudera reported that more than 70 leading global telecommunications organizations such as British Telecom (BT), SFR, True Corporation, and Telkomsel have demonstrated the business value that can be achieved by Cloudera Enterprise.

Cloudera also announced that its healthcare client grew by 72 percent in 2015.

Cloudera’s commitment to “focus on taking advantage of big data to personalize the patient experience and improve clinical outcomes” was exemplified when the company this week announced its contribution to President Barack Obama’s Presicion Medicine Initiative (PMI).

Jonathan Limbo, sales and business development head, strategi accounts, Cloudera Philippines, said Cloudera built its platform encrypted and supported by the people who administer the platform to ensure “secured” data.

He also said that Cloudera will be focusing in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and in Asia Pacific and that it has offices in China, Australia and New Zealand.

Cloudera has partnership with over 2,100 “partner ecosystem” which are providers of expertise in software, hardwares and services. RIZA LOZADA