Cloudera signs Tech Data as its first Indian Distributor

Tech Data has signed an agreement with Cloudera to deliver new integrated advanced analytics and machine learning solutions to the Indian market. This agreement expands the recently-announced appointment of Tech Data as Cloudera’s strategic partner across ASEAN.

Based on their unique shared data experience (SDX) technologies, Cloudera’s analytics solutions help enterprises simplify management of complex data lakes, thereby reducing the time and risk to derive valuable insights from their data. The new solution suite integrates enterprise hardware, compute, storage, hyperconverged systems and software designed for data center, cloud and mobility service provider use-cases. Together, Tech Data and Cloudera will help enterprises leverage data to secure their business, serve customers better and operate their business more efficiently.

“Becoming the first authorized Cloudera distributor in India will help Tech Data create a wide variety of opportunities for our partners, enabling them to deliver integrated big data and machine learning solutions to the market,” said Naresh Desai, Vice-President, Specialist Business, Asia-Pacific, Tech Data. “Through our alliance with Cloudera, we will enhance our comprehensive integrated offerings across our vendor portfolio creating a powerful a platform for cross-selling.”

“Cloudera’s partnership with Tech Data enables us to extend our reach to an expanded network of partners in India, further supporting big data initiatives across organizations in both public and private sectors,” said Mark Micallef, Vice-President, Asia-Pacific and Japan at Cloudera. “The integrated solution enables businesses to easily access and manage data for deeper insights that will be used to power intelligent decision making.”

By integrating Cloudera’s modern analytic database with Tech Data’s solution suite, the companies will be able to deliver a targeted solution for organizations driving big data lake initiatives to better collect and manage data, speed time to derive valuable insights and reduce risk. Powered by Apache Impala (incubating), Cloudera’s advanced analytics and machine learning solutions bring high-performance SQL analytics to big data enabling organizations to meet the business needs of today while evolving to meet those of tomorrow.