Here’s the interview snippet from the interaction with Mr. Bennett Wong, Vice President, Advanced Solutions – Modern Data Centre & Analytics, Tech Data Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), and Mr. Remus Lim, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Cloudera.
Saumya: How Tech Data will leverage Cloudera’s real-time insights capabilities to enable enterprises in addressing data in motion gaps?
Bennett: Edge computing is expected to be a USD208 billion business by 2023. With the rise in edge computing, enterprises require robust real-time insights and more efficient management of data lifecycles, preferable from one unified platform for ease of functioning, as well as the capabilities to tackle any data in motion gaps.
This is where Tech Data and Cloudera’s partnership comes in which will empower enterprises in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region to expand their data business opportunities.Tech Data will leverage Cloudera’s real-time insights capabilities to enable enterprises to address data in motion gaps and securely manage their entire data lifecycle with greater flexibility from the Edge to AI.
Under this alliance, Cloudera through its Data-In-Motion offering will provide two core services, DataFlow – which enables developers to connect any data source anywhere with any structure, process it, and deliver to any destination using a low-code authoring experience; and Stream Processing – a complete, enterprise-grade stream management and stateful processing solution. Cloudera Data Platform’s SDX (Shared Data Experience) offers businesses an integrated set of security and governance technologies built on metadata to secure, monitor, and govern their data consistently.
Saumya: How adopting real-time insights with speed can help enterprises manage data lifecycles efficiently?
Remus: Business stakeholders today want more real-time visibility to derive insights to make faster data-driven decisions. More importantly, they want to achieve this with the flexibility to move data at scale across any environment in a secure manner.
Demands of business stakeholders have risen and they want more real-time visibility to improve customer experience and drive new revenue opportunities. Having a solution which is able to scale and process the information fast enough to guide business decision making is essential. Businesses can optimise their operations and better address customer needs immediately when the information is processed instantaneously to derive more granular insights. Enterprises can continuously monitor customer interactions, enabling more personalised service and tailored offerings which builds customer loyalty.
Saumya: Why harnessing data in motion is an essential step for businesses in gaining control of and leveraging data as a strategic asset?
Bennett: Traditional analytic solutions used by enterprises have certain limitations such as an inability to scale as data increases, making it difficult for businesses to address immediate customer needs in a timely manner, or to accurately offer promotions due to an inability to continuously monitor customer interactions. Hence, harnessing data in motion is an essential step for businesses in gaining control of and leveraging data as a strategic asset.
Remus: Many enterprises now have their data stored in different environments, be it a combination of multiple clouds, on premises or public clouds. To break down these silos and ensure that businesses have access to every bit of data, starting from edge data, enterprises need the freedom to move their data from any source to any destination efficiently and securely. Harnessing Cloudera’s data in motion capabilities streamlines this flow of data and accelerates businesses, deriving value from their data in a scalable manner.
Saumya: How Cloudera’s enhanced Data-In-Motion offering has redefined the data in motion market?
Remus: The Cloudera Data-In-Motion is a comprehensive enterprise solution that meets the needs of organisations operating across hybrid and multi- cloud environments. Embedded with enterprise grade security, governance and support, the solution allows businesses to quickly connect to any data source irrespective of the place, process and destination, without worrying about vendor lock-in.
Speed is of the essence and Cloudera enables businesses to gain actionable insights from real-time streaming analytics enabling quick response to critical business events.
Saumya: What is the role of Tech Data’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) in enabling growth across next generation technologies?
Bennett: Tech Data’s Center of Excellence (CoE) is an adaptive virtual lab environment built for the channel ecosystem. The CoE provides channel partners with a suite of ready-built and tested solution offerings to leverage in order to innovate, drive agility and accelerate their success and speed to market.
Built for the channel partner community and end users in mind, the CoE provides ready multi-vendor next generation solutions that support the most common and complex IT problems. The solutions integrate the strengths across vendors and are ready to be tested and demonstrated, helping enterprises go-to-market and scale their business at speed.
For instance, partners can work on enhancing their sales and pre-sales capabilities in data and analytics through the CoE’s Practice Builder enablement framework. Partners can also look forward to extended support in the form of POCs, demos and solutions design.
