Webster Mudge, senior director for technology solutions at Cloudera, has recommended a series of steps for government agencies to mitigate the risk of cyber attacks and prevent data theft. Mudge wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Monday that agencies must adopt a risk management framework to align people …

Erin Hawley serves as regional director of national security programs at Cloudera and is responsible for business development and marketing initiatives across the company’s intelligence market area. As part of her role, Hawley also acts as liaison for the company’s data management and open source briefings with members of Congress and their …

Deloitte and Cloudera have partnered to offer customers a financial analysis tool designed to help industry fulfill capital analysis and review requirements. The offering incorporates accelerators meant to centralize data selection, data quality, variables conversion, and data ingestion and management, Cloudera said Wednesday. Leveraging Hadoop through Cloudera Enterprise, the financial …

Computer Sciences Corp. has obtained two security certifications for a Hadoop-based managed service offering intended to help organizations manage big data. CSC said Tuesday it collaborated with Cloudera to meet requirements set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Eddie …

Cloudera has been recognized in two categories of Database Trends and Applications magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2015. The magazine named Cloudera the best Hadoop and big data service for the second consecutive year, Cloudera said Wednesday. “It is an honor to be recognized by DBTA readers as the best …

Erin Hawley serves as director of national security programs at Cloudera, an integrator of open source technologies such as Hadoop for federal agencies and commercial businesses. Hawley joined Cloudera in December 2011 after five years at Composite Software and is also a veteran of firms such as Blackboard and Sun …

Cloudera has been chosen by CounterTack to equip the latter’s Sentinel endpoint big data technology with its data hub infrastructure that works to protect servers, workstations, laptops and other endpoints across corporate networks from malicious malware and potential cyber attacks. The Apache Hadoop-based Cloudera Enterprise platform seeks to support more than 100,000 endpoint deployments …

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to …

Health IT company Cerner Corp. has selected Cloudera’s enterprise data hub to power its big data platform in an effort to analyze healthcare information and improve patient outcomes. Mike Olson, founder and chief strategy officer for Cloudera, said Thursday the company will work with Cerner “to capture, organize, analyze and …

Kate Tong serves as senior manager for public sector marketing at Cloudera, where she oversees the strategic direction of marketing communications to reach potential clients in the public sector. Her responsibilities include customer acquisition and retention, events and promotions, marketing programs, thought leadership and reseller and technology partnerships. Tong initially worked as senior manager …

Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with …

Red Hat and Cloudera have partnered to combine their enterprise software services in an effort to help customers extract value from big data. The team will provide open and agile technology stack to aid clients in deploying big data solutions on premises and in various cloud platforms, Red Hat said Thursday. Scott …

Mercedes Westcott serves as vice president of public sector at Cloudera and also is a member of the federal advisory board at Threatstream. Prior to Cloudera, Westcott was vice president of public sector at Delphix. Westcott is also a former vice president at HP Enterprise Security Software, which she joined through HP’s acquisition of ArcSight, …

Cloudera and Teradata have expanded their partnership with the goal of rolling their enterprise data hub and warehouse products into a single big data management system. The companies also agreed to collaborate on software integration, go-to-market strategies, product reselling, and support services, Teradata said Thursday. According to Teradata, the alliance …

(INFORMATIONWEEK)–“The leading Hadoop platform is now the most secure.” Commercial Hadoop vendor Cloudera announced Tuesday that they had successfully purchased big data security firm Gazzang, stepping up their game to offer their customers encryption as well as security solutions to issues of storing, processing and analyzing of data. VP of …