Chinese Offices for Big Data Leader Cloudera

Intel-funded big data giant Cloudera is opening offices in three major Chinese cities, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, from which to accelerate its growth both in the country and in Asia more generally.

The sites will provide the rapidly-growing company with R&D and customer support, professional services, and work on IT, sales and marketing and partner alliances; and Cloudera says it will provide local customers with access to high-quality technology to build their own enterprise data hubs.

The company already offers services and training to promote the growth of big data in the Chinese market - and has trained over 27,000 individuals worldwide in the use of Hadoop. CEO Tom Reilly (pictured) says it is making 'a big investment in a big opportunity'. He adds: 'Our new presence gives us an opportunity to innovate locally, to better collaborate with our enterprise customers and to show strong support for our local China partners. With the interest in open source software and big data being so strong, we expect fast growth and adoption in China.'

George Ling, Cloudera's GM China, comments: 'With a strong economy, successful enterprises and local developers, China is a place for great products and services powered by Big Data technologies like Cloudera.'

The firm's platform, billed as ' the most widely adopted big data platform in the world', gives clients a single location in which to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data. In April, it announced $740m in financing from chipmaker Intel, which as a result became an 18 percent shareholder.

Web site: www.cloudera.com .