Cloudwick Sees Fortune 1000 Big Data Adoption Accelerating in 2015

FREMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 5, 2014) - Cloudwick, the leading big data DevOps service and solution provider to the Fortune 1000, today announced it will be adding 45 additional consultants bringing its total big data operations practice to more than 125 consultants.

"Based on Q4 business and the 2015 pipeline, we decided to increase Cloudwick's Q1 hiring and training plan by 80% to meet the growing demand we are seeing with our partners and clients," said Mani Chhabra, Cloudwick CEO. "We're seeing increased AWS big data platform adoption by the Fortune 1000 which is leading to faster Cloudera, Hortonworks, DataStax and AWS EMR production scale-out and greater demand for Cloudwick services."

Last month, Cloudwick made several announcements with partners, including Cloudera to provide Navigator Installation and Support, Databricks as the first Spark Certified System Integrator, and Amazon as an AWS Partner. The newest hires will be put through 4-months of intensive Cloudera, Hortonworks, Amazon, DataStax and Databricks training and certification program where they will graduate and serve Cloudwick's growing Fortune 1000 Big Data clients.

The company also recently announced Cloudwick Big Loop, its multi-vendor operations platform for better cluster management and support for LOB, IT and big data vendors. Cloudwick Big Loop creates greater collaboration between Fortune 1000 IT staff, developers and their database management systems as well as big data vendors, allowing developers and IT to accelerate cluster scale-out and improve production cluster operations. Cloudwick Big Loop supports DataStax, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Spark clusters -- on-premise or in the cloud.

Cloudwick will be at Cassandra Summit December 3-4 at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London.

About Cloudwick
Cloudwick is the leading big data service provider in North America providing the Fortune 1000 with DevOps production services for Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and DataStax big data clusters. Its trained and certified Hadoop and NoSQL administrators, developers and data scientists have more than 125,000 hours of enterprise production experience with leading enterprises including 3M, Bank of America, Comcast, Home Depot, Intuit, JP Morgan, NetApp, Target, Visa, Walmart, and more than 50 others enterprises. As a strategic partner to Cloudera, Hortonworks and DataStax, Cloudwick builds, operates, monitors and manages many of North America's leading big data systems. For more information, please visit www.cloudwick.com.