<p>Cloudera, provider of enterprise software built around Apache Hadoop, has teamed up with T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, to provide cloud-based data-analytics solutions.</p><p>The companies will develop the "Analytics-as-a-Service" solutions together. It will combine Cloudera's Impala RTQ real-time analytics in the data-management-infrastructure layer and T-Systems' cloud-computing infrastructure.</p><p>The deal gives Cloudera access to T-Systems' customer base, while T-Systems gets the technological capability to become a player in the growing data-analytics market. Hadoop is the most popular open-source framework for running analytics applications in parallel, distributed across massive compute clusters.</p><p>Cloudera is one of the most popular vendors of Hadoop-based software. Among its top executives is Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop, who works as the company's chief architect.</p><p><a href="http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/03/cloudera-and-t-systems-provide-cloud-based-data-analytics">Keep reading...</a></p>