Big data analysis is still not perfect. Companies are recognizing that the technology still has a lot of room to grow: from SQL analysis options to deeper analytics needs to even faster real-time performance. So in order to answer the today’s most pressing big data questions across the enterprise, the industry is growing further as two of the industry’s biggest names have announced a partnership that is expected to answer.

Splunk and Cloudera are joining forces, and the relationship will ensure best-in-class integration of Splunk Enterprise to Cloudera Enterprise using Splunk Hadoop Connect, which provides bi-directional integration to easily and reliably move data between Splunk Enterprise and Hadoop. Apparently, the strategic partnership of Splunk and Cloudera will ultimately expand the way the big data market thinks about the value of analytics.

“Splunk’s mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. By working together, Splunk and Cloudera deliver big data analytics that span the needs of any organization,” said Bill Gaylord, senior vice president of business development, Splunk. “The integration of Splunk Enterprise and CDH through Splunk Hadoop Connect provides customers a way to easily and reliably transfer data between the systems. This allows customers to easily use Splunk’s best-in-class machine data ingestion and management to deliver data to Hadoop, or ingest data into Splunk from Hadoop, such as the output of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and easily analyze and visualize that data.”

“Cloudera and Splunk are an ideal combination to develop applications which accelerate the insight organizations get from big data,” said Tim Stevens, vice president of business and corporate development, Cloudera. “More customers are choosing CDH as their Hadoop distribution, and this relationship allows us to bring big data solutions to a much broader spectrum of end users.”

Apart from this development, just yesterday, Splunk rolled out its latest 2.4 version of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security. The USP of this app is the Statistical Analysis for Threat Detection, making it the next generation of security intelligence. With Splunk App for Enterprise Security, users will now be able to accurately identify the ever-important unknown threats in real time with out-of-the-box content, new searches, dashboards and visualizations.