Revolution Analytics partners with Cloudera for Big Analytics Solution

New Solution Integrates R with Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop to Deliver Powerful Solution to Tame Big Data

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sep 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of R software, services and support, today announced a partnership with Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, to deliver a joint solution for Big Analytics that runs R analytics in the Revolution R Enterprise platform on Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH).

"RevoConnectR for Apache Hadoop" is a collection of open-source packages that allows R programmers to access Hadoop HDFS and HBASE data stores in Apache Hadoop directly from R and write MapReduce jobs with R. The packages are now available to download for free from the RHadoop Project on GitHub ( https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/RHadoop/wiki ) and will be commercially supported for Apache Hadoop with Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 Server for Linux.

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