Data-to-decisions workshops

• Help client leadership teams effectively align business and technology objectives
• Prioritise use cases identified as business critical
• Perform up-front needs assessment and requirements definition
• Delivery of phased roadmap, TCO, value realisation and change management plan

Dedicated team of experts

• Data scientists with domain and industry expertise
• Vast experience with industry models and methodologies
• Access to advanced visualisation, modelling and automation tools

• 60+ packaged industry use case implementations
• Proven success in rapid deployment of solutions

Cloudera platform

• Certified Cloudera engineers: A team of Lumen administrators, developers and architects trained and certified, delivering use-case-driven expertise
• Cloudera Manager: An end-to-end management application for Apache Hadoop
• Apache Hadoop: Reliable, scalable distributed storage and computing

• Hue: Apache-licensed, browser-based desktop interface for Hadoop
• Flume: Distributed framework for collecting and aggregating log and event data, and streaming it into HDFS or HBase in real time
• MapReduce and Yarn: Distributed computing framework for Apache Hadoop

• HBase (with HBase Option): Scalable record and table storage with real-time read/write access
• Hive: Metadata repository with SQL-like interface and ODBC/JDBC drivers for connecting BI applications to Hadoop

Managed activities

• Solution deployed on Lumen Bare Metal cloud servers: 20 core (2x10), 256 GB RAM, SSD and HDD; Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @2.3 GHz and 2x 800 GB Raw SSD | 12x2 TB Raw @7200rpm | 24 TB JBOD Configurable
• Maintain licensing and software assurance with Cloudera
• Prepare server for application service (OS specific parameters)

• Install and QA Hadoop software, Cloudera management tools and monitoring
• Configure connectivity for host headers, TCP, IPs and SSL
• Server, cluster and network monitoring

• Restart/stop/start services
• Update managed servers with recommended security patches, minor updates and hot-fixes upon customer request
• Perform node repair/extraction/insertion without impacting customer use