Cloudera, Inc. has had a close relationship with Pentaho Corp. since its early days, with Pentaho eagerly making use of Hadoop and Cloudera’s services to manage Big Data. That relationship has continued to this day, and at the PentahoWorld 2015 conference in Orlando, Florida, Cloudera’s presence is difficult to miss.

Mike Olson, CSO of Cloudera, met with Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss Cloudera’s close ties to Pentaho, the current state of business for Cloudera, and how further Hadoop-related innovations are shaping Cloudera’s place in the Big Data world.

Moving forward to Kudu

Looking back to Cloudera’s first years and Hadoop’s initial design goals, Olson put forward the linear approach of those times.

“The original platform was built really to do log-processing for Google,” he said, acknowledging that such a strictly linear processing style had future growth issues, which would spur them to develop alternative implementations.

The solution to clients finding it hard to choose between a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) or the database management of HBase is being presented by Cloudera in its new product Kudu, which sports a design intended to handle random access and scans with ease.

“We think we’re going to attract new workloads with Kudu,” said Olson.

Composable services

Olson then moved on to discuss some of Cloudera’s goals beyond growing the market penetration of Kudu. He laid out what consumers expect of employing cloud management for storage, analysis and other data treatments, as well as what could be done to expand their application options.

“I want to examine vast amounts of data for patterns and then make predictions based on what I’ve learned,” he said. However, as different customers each have their own needs and wants from the interface and entry of these systems, he felt added, “We need a robust system of applications that run on top of the framework” to allow Cloudera to make the move from selling the platform to selling the applications.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of PentahoWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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