Exist Global Joins Cloudera Connect Partner Program

PASIG CITY, Philippines - Aug. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Exist Global, a leading IT consulting and software engineering solutions provider to Banking and Finance, Telecoms, Healthcare, and Retail enterprises in Asia Pacific, announced today that it has joined the Cloudera Connect partner program to market and offer Cloudera’s Big Data solutions. The program, designed to propagate the innovative use of Apache Hadoop for a range of business applications, represents the industry’s most comprehensive ecosystem of technology solutions vendors, value-added resellers and managed service providers offering Hadoop-based solutions and services.

“Enterprises today are increasingly dependent on the power of information when making strategic business decisions," said Jerry Rapes, Exist chief executive officer. "Our goal is to enable our enterprise partners to maximize the business value of their data by helping them consolidate their data environments and efficiently roll-out innovative data management solutions and practices.”

Cloudera will work with Exist’s industry specialization and open source innovation capabilities to enhance sales and strengthen its partnerships with key industries such as Banking and Finance, Healthcare, and Retail within Asia Pacific.

As a Cloudera Connect Partner, Exist will gain access to Cloudera’s expansive toolset of Hadoop training, knowledgebase, and marketing resources.

This partnership demonstrates Exist’s dedication to providing its enterprise partners top-notch data management solutions and services in order to address the growing need for data-driven business decisions.

About Exist Global

Exist started in 2001 and has roots in designing and building breakthrough, disruptive Open Source innovations. Today, it is a global, multi-awarded consulting and technology engineering solutions leader operating in Manila and Cebu with clients in Asia Pacific, Australia and the US. Visit www.exist.comfor more information.

About Cloudera

Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all their structured and unstructured data. Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), available to download for free, is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop in commercial and non-commercial environments. For the fastest path to reliably use this completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache technologies. As the top contributor to the Apache open source community and with tens of thousands of nodes under management across customers in financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university research, oil and gas and gaming, Cloudera’s depth of experience and commitment to sharing expertise are unrivaled. www.cloudera.com