Cloudera Blog • 10/26/2023

Think Like a Data Scientist: The Importance of Building a Data-Driven Company Culture

We’ve all heard that data helps businesses make better decisions. The good news? This isn’t just speculation: research shows that companies who use data to drive decision making increase revenues by an average of more than 8%, are 23 times more likely to attract new customers, and are 19 times more likely to be profitable as a result.

Most modern companies have access to rich and varied data sources embedded into their daily operations. Many of those data sources may be accessible to employees

Cloudera Blog • 10/05/2023

Five Common Pitfalls on the Path to Becoming a Data-Driven Enterprise

Your company collects data from different sources and then you analyze the data to help make the right decisions. But you aren’t quite getting the results that you expect. Maybe the insights aren’t accurate. Perhaps the process is time consuming and cumbersome. Or you are only currently using data for a few use cases and struggle to implement organization wide.

Using data effectively is the key to competing in today’s world as customer expectations continue to rise. Moving from a best guess min

Cloudera Blog • 09/19/2023

Think Your Company Doesn’t Need a Chief Data Officer? Here Are 7 Reasons Why It Does

Perhaps your C-suite is already a bit crowded. The typical hierarchy will include a CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CIO, and a few more. Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO).

The CDO is the point person for your data strategy: the leader who oversees how data is collected, managed, and put to use to improve the organization; the person who ensures that wherever there are opportu

Cloudera Blog • 09/11/2023

What management doesn’t get about their tech teams

It’s a given that every company is fueled through technology now. Business success depends on how well an organization leverages data, how it adapts to changes, which technology stack it chooses, and how fast it digitizes.

Cloudera Blog • 07/17/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: Environment Health Scorecard

Throughout the One Big Cluster Stuck series we’ve explored impactful best practices to gain control of your Cloudera Data platform (CDP) environment and significantly improve its health and performance. We’ve shared code, dashboards, and tools to help you on your health improvement journey. We’d like to provide one last tool.

We track environment health at the macro level with a dashboard that mirrors our blog series methodology with a few additions. We set quarterly OKR (Objectives and Key Res

Cloudera Blog • 06/26/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: The Right Tool for the Right Job

Over time, using the wrong tool for the job can wreak havoc on environmental health. Here are some tips and tricks of the trade to prevent well-intended yet inappropriate data engineering and data science activities from cluttering or crashing the cluster.

Take precaution using CDSW as an all-purpose workflow management and scheduling tool. Using CDSW primarily for scheduling and automating any type of workflow is a misuse of the service. For data engineering teams, Airflow is regarded as the b

Cloudera Blog • 06/12/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: Platform Health

Clearly environmental health and high performance are dependent on the proper implementation, tuning, and use of CDP, hardware, and microservices. Ideally you have Visibility and Transparency into existing high priority problems in your environment.

The links below will carry you to regions within the Cloudera Community where you will find best practices to properly implement and tune hardware and services. Other articles guide you through root cause analysis of issues that you may be experienc

Cloudera Blog • 06/12/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: Platform Health

Clearly environmental health and high performance are dependent on the proper implementation, tuning, and use of CDP, hardware, and microservices. Ideally you have Visibility and Transparency into existing high priority problems in your environment.

The links below will carry you to regions within the Cloudera Community where you will find best practices to properly implement and tune hardware and services. Other articles guide you through root cause analysis of issues that you may be experienc

Cloudera Blog • 05/22/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: Data Asset Standardization

Data asset standardization is the purposeful and carefully planned consolidation of redundant, contradictory reports, processes, and databases into enterprise standards. The proliferation of data assets can have the greatest adverse impact on environmental health; standardization has many health benefits:
• None Reduces the likelihood that ill-constructed assets take down processes, nodes, and clusters
• None Reduces contention and competition for compute and storage
• None Reduces process and s

Cloudera Blog • 05/08/2023

One Big Cluster Stuck: Visibility and Transparency

Out of the box Cloudera Data platform (CDP) performs superbly but over time, if data architecture, data engineering, and DevOps best practices are not maintained, you can get stuck maintaining the wild, wild west. In this six-part series, we’re focused on improving the health of your environment.

Improving environmental health is impossible if you’re flying blind. You’ve got to see the challenges to overcome them. You’ll need to be able to suppress noise in order to focus your efforts on analyz

Cloudera Blog • 04/24/2023

Gaining Control of Your CDP Environment

Unwelcome… are platform instability, downtime, hardware failure, poor performance, cluster resource contention, repeated process failures, runaway live queries, critical services alarms, invisibility into alarm cacophony… the list goes on. If those are ailments you would like to remedy …

To this six-part series, where we’ll look at how to get control of the health of your Cloudera Data platform (CDP) environment. Out of the box, CDP performs superbly, but over time, if data architecture, data engineerin

Cloudera Blog • 03/27/2023

Trusted Data: Alchemy For Misinformation

The best description of untrusted data I’ve ever heard is, “We all attend the QBR – Sales, Marketing, Finance – and present quarterly results, except the Sales reports and numbers don’t match Marketing numbers and neither match Finance reports. We argue about where the numbers came from, then after 45 minutes of digging for common ground, we chuck our shovels and abandon the call in disgust.”

How would you go about fixing that situation? How would you get the trust into trusted data?

Our spell

Cloudera Blog • 03/17/2023

Align, Engage and Rave: 3 Things I Wish I Knew as Chief Data Officer

I lead data and analytics at Cloudera. We’re called Cloudera Data Analytics (CDA). How very clever. Prior to forming the group, it was imperative to understand Cloudera’s corporate strategy: corporate objectives, product strategy, go-to-market strategy, key metrics and KPI. Our CDA charter must be aligned with corporate strategy, but shouldn’t everything we do be aligned?

Cloudera helps innovative organizations tackle transformational use cases and exact real-time insights. The analytics CDA de

Cloudera Blog • 03/03/2023

Why I Prefer Cloudera CDP

What a shocker! Would I earn an ounce of credibility if you knew that I was previously a Cloudera customer before I became a Clouderan? When I joined L.A.-based nVizhen, a data consulting firm, I became a Cloudera partner. We implemented CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) for innovative G2k organizations so they could tackle transformational use cases and exact real-time insights. I witnessed first-hand the power CDP wielded across multiple industries.

Now I’m here. When CEO Rob Bearden asked me why