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From Converged infrastructure and the data center staff

85%

Percent of the roles in EMC’s IT organization that have changed significantly in the past 18 months

From Tech leaders’ New Year’s resolutions

25

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The Infrastructure vertical is curated by Jo Maitland, who focuses on cloud computing, enterprise IT and the disruptive technologies at play shaping the future of infrastructure. Prior to joining GigaOM Pro, Jo was an executive editor at TechTarget and cut her teeth as an analyst at Forrester Research and The 451. This page is your home for Research, Long Views and all things Infrastructure, from cloud computing to data centers to networks and software.

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Cloudera hooks up to Tableau

Feb 7, 2012

Hadoop infrastructure provider, Cloudera has partnered with Tableau, makers of software that allows users to analyze, visualize and share information. The Cloudera Connector for Tableau allows for ad-hoc visualization so you can see patterns and outliers in your data stores in Hadoop without needing any special configuration, according to Tableau. This kind of integration will be important to the adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise as most companies do not have skilled data scientists on tap to make sense of big data. I expect Cloudera to partner with some of the bigger players in the Business Intelligence market, Microsoft, IBM, etc, for the same reason.

— Jo Maitland
Infrastructure Curator