Altus promises to simplify the use of elastic infrastructure
IBM partner Cloudera showed off a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tool at the Strata Data conference in London this week, designed to make it easier to manage big data in the public cloud.
Initially, Cloudera Altus will help data engineers to use ‘on-demand infrastructure to hasten the creation and operation of elastic data pipelines that power sophisticated, data-driven applications.’ These applications, such as ETL, are often large workloads that run for a fixed period of time; they help companies to analyse the raw data that they collect. Cloudera says that organisations can increase their flexibility and efficiency by running these pipelines on elastic infrastructure, which is available as-and-when needed.
Because it is based around data pipelines, users can submit, clone and troubleshoot pipelines with minimal attention paid to the underlying infrastructure. There are also no data siloes, so engineers can run direct reads from/writes to cloud object storage.
