Skytap Launches Pre-Configured Cloudera Hadoop into Hybrid Cloud

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Skytap, a provider of self-service cloud automation products, has unveiled pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop (CDH4) Enterprise templates that are now available as part of the Skytap Cloud public template library.

According to Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development at Skytap, the launch of Cloudera Hadoop for Enterprise Hybrid Clouds will make it easier for Skytap Cloud customers to quickly and easily configure and launch Hadoop instances for development and testing purposes. Goodwin told Talkin’ Cloud that a customer can use the service to get virtual Hadoop clusters up and running in less than 10 minutes…

"It also includes their Cloudera Manager. The whole environment is a pre-loaded, pre-configured template. It’s available in what we call the Skytap Cloud public content library," Goodwin said.

Available for free up to 50 nodes to Skytap Cloud customers, the Hadoop deployment primarily will be used for spinning up clusters to do development and testing rather than for creating production environments, Goodwin noted. That’s in line with the way Skytap customers typically use the cloud. Its top use case is software development and testing, followed by virtual technical training and software demonstrations and evaluations…

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