Cloudera and CenturyLink Expand Strategic Alliance to Deliver Big Data as a Service for Customers

Cloudera and CenturyLink
Expand Strategic Alliance to Deliver Big Data as a Service for Customers

Agreement
aims to drive competitive advantage for CenturyLink customers by enabling them
to better leverage their cloud data

SINGAPORE, September 22,
2016 — Companies across the globe have recognized the value
they can derive from their big data to enable better business decision-making,
transform their businesses and create competitive advantages. To enable
customers to more effectively and efficiently use these innovative technology
solutions, Cloudera, the
global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and
analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source
technologies, today announced an expanded partnership with CenturyLink, Inc., a global
communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company. Together, Cloudera and
CenturyLink Global IT Services are working to deliver big data as a service to
enable customers to gain value from all their data.

As part of being a preferred partner, CenturyLink’s Global IT
Services is delivering a fully managed big data solution powered by Cloudera
Enterprise. This combined big data offering will exponentially speed time to
deploy Cloudera Enterprise and also simplify some of the management
complexities from Hadoop operations, so that customers can spend more time
working with data and generating new insights that drive business growth.

“CenturyLink and Cloudera are aligned not just from a
technology standpoint, but also in our shared interest in helping customers get
more value out of all of their data,” said Gary Gauba, president,
CenturyLink Cognilytics. “That’s why in addition to offering a platform for big
data management and analytics in the cloud, we are also focused on delivering
value-added use cases that run on this platform and help our customers become
more agile and responsive.”

By leveraging
Cloudera Enterprise, CenturyLink will gain a more complete view of its
customers across all its systems, products, and diverse interaction channels. This entails integrating
all existing data sources and ingesting real-time data. CenturyLink will use the Cloudera platform to perform
advanced analytics in the areas of Software Defined Networks as well as Network
Virtualization to proactively monitor and further optimize its global
communications network.

“CenturyLink
and Cloudera have a history of outstanding customer service and innovation, and
we’re pleased to be helping deliver a data management and analytics platform
that drives significant business benefits,” said Tom Reilly, chief executive officer,
Cloudera. “CenturyLink’s big data-as-a-service offerings will make concepts like
advanced analytics, machine learning, and real-time data more available and
accessible to more people. And that’s where true business transformation
happens.”

CenturyLink’s
big data-as-a-service solutions are under development and expected to be
generally available later this year. Cloudera managed services by
CenturyLink are generally available today.