Cloudera has appointed Keir Garrett as its new Vice President for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), based in Sydney. This appointment comes at a key time for Cloudera as it continues to accelerate its hybrid data footprint across the region through the rollout of new hybrid data capabilities that will allow organisations to have access to fast, self-service analytics and exploratory data science on any type of data cloud.
Garrett brings more than 20 years of management, strategic consulting, and digital transformation experience to Cloudera. She has successfully developed lines of business in global markets and across multiple industries, both directly with customers, and in collaboration with the partner ecosystem.
Cloudera’s Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan, Remus Lim comments, “The ANZ region is one of the world’s earliest adopters of hybrid data technologies and our customers are focused on achieving bold growth strategies within their cloud and on-premises environments. However, this desire for accelerated growth also comes at a time of increased pressure to meet higher data security and governance standards. We are extremely pleased to welcome Keir to our senior leadership team at this pivotal time and her knowledge will be invaluable in helping our customers move forward at speed with their data transformation journeys.”
Most recently, Garrett spent two years at Crayon in the role of Chief Executive Officer and prior to this was Head of Software, Cloud, Advisory, Professional & Managed Services Sales at Datacom. Prior to this, she held several senior positions at Microsoft, SAP and Infor.
Garrett comments, “It’s fantastic to be joining a talented group of people, customers and partners. Today’s data savvy organisations know they need to do more with their data to remain competitive. Our customers are looking for the flexibility that allows them to scale their data workloads at speed, across any cloud environment, from multiple data sources. However, this needs to be delivered in a way that drives business efficiencies, cost optimisation and is secure. The team at Cloudera understand this and I’m looking forward to working with them and our expanding channel ecosystem, to help our customers achieve accelerated growth as part of their transformation journeys.”
In line with plans for customer growth, Cloudera is continuing to expand its channel partner ecosystem, announcing Atturra as its newest channel partner in Australia.
Today also sees Cloudera unveiling new hybrid data capabilities in the Cloudera Data Platform across Australia and New Zealand. From today, organisations can improve efficiencies in moving data, metadata, data workloads and data applications across clouds and on premises to optimise for performance, cost and security. Cloudera’s portable data services enable simple, low-risk data workload and data application movement for ultimate data lakehouse optionality. The company’s new secure data replication simplifies and secures movement of data and metadata, the latest SDX enhancement in Cloudera’s unified data fabric.
Lim comments, “Cost or performance is not a choice companies want to make as these are tightly interlinked. Organisations that choose a data-first strategy can focus on how they deliver value, while being cost-efficient. Being able to move data and workloads anytime and anywhere throughout a modern data architecture is key in allowing organisations to meet evolving business requirements. Cloudera has always provided consistent data security and governance across hybrid cloud, and with these updates will do so between all data services across all infrastructures.”
The new Cloudera data analytics and data management innovations for hybrid data include:
Portable Data Services enable data analytics and the data applications that are built with them to be moved quickly and efficiently between different infrastructures without costly redeveloping or rearchitecting the data applications. CDP Data Services – Data Engineering, Data Warehousing and Machine Learning – are each built on a unified code base and offer identical functionality on AWS, Azure and on-prem Private Cloud. This makes it easier for users, administrators and developers to turn data into value and insight, while providing users with a consistent data experience, irrespective of where the data is stored or where the data applications run.
Secure Data Replication enables data and the metadata to be copied or moved quickly and securely between different Cloudera deployments in data centers and public clouds. Only Cloudera’s replication manager moves the metadata that carries data security and governance policies with the data wherever it goes, eliminating the need to reimplement them and enabling hybrid data flexibility.
Universal Data Distribution enables companies to take control of their data flows, from origination through all points of consumption both on-premises and in the cloud, in a universal way that’s simple, secure, scalable and cost-effective. Universal data distribution is enabled by Cloudera DataFlow, the first data ingestion solution built for a hybrid data world. A true hybrid data ingestion solution that addresses the entire diversity of data movement use cases: batch, event-driven, edge, microservices and continuous/streaming, Cloudera Data Flow turns any data source into a data stream, supporting streaming scale, and unlocking hundreds of thousands of data-generating clients.
