SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Qubole, the data activation company, today announced its expanded partnership and product integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Qubole’s cloud-native data platform running on GCP, customers have the option to deploy a new enterprise analytics service with a first-class user experience through a unified workbench that includes notebooks, dashboards, a native interface for all commands, and built-in tools for easy, secure collaboration.
Combining the performance, reliability, and scalability of Google Cloud Platform with Qubole’s self-service data platform and integrated tools for data science and data engineering, this new offering enables easier, more collaborative processing of big data workloads with Apache Spark and Hadoop on Google Cloud. Specific features include:
- Unified user experience for data science and data engineering — Native workbench that includes notebooks, dashboards, and a common interface for all commands and tasks, enabling data engineers and data scientists to work and collaborate using tools, languages, and data processing engines they are familiar with.
- Day-one self-service access — Fast access to Qubole through the GCP Marketplace, with automatic account setup, Google Cloud authentication, and simplified user onboarding.
- 24x7 support for open source engines — Highly optimized versions of open source engines and frameworks with advanced caching and performance optimizations, and dedicated support and engineering teams specialized by engine.
- Low cost and high reliability — Automatic upscaling, rebalancing, and aggressive downscaling of clusters with a complete context of the workload, SLA, and priority of each job, including intelligent autonomous and policy-based management of regular compute instances or Preemptible VMs.
- Enterprise-grade security — Fine-grained predefined or custom identity and access management roles to separate compute and data access. Qubole also offers role-based access controls for secure collaboration in notebooks and commands.
- Easy access to many data sources — Connectors for Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and more.
“Data is the new oil of this economy, and every day more companies are turning to the cloud to process data and leverage its value in their decisions,” said Mohit Bhatnagar, senior vice president of product, Qubole. “With this expanded partnership, Qubole is providing a powerful analytics service for Apache Spark and Hadoop on Google Cloud. Qubole’s solution delivers a unified workbench, notebooks and easy-to-use tools for data scientists and data engineers, enterprise-grade security, and 24x7 specialized support.”
With the rapid growth in big data processing, enterprises need a cloud data platform that provides a consistent, secure experience for processing petabyte-scale workloads. Qubole is one of the only cloud-native data platforms that delivers comprehensive big data processing on multiple engines and frameworks through a unified experience, including some of the industry’s most advanced financial governance capabilities.
“We are very excited about Qubole partnering with us to process big data on Apache Spark and Hadoop. This partnership is all about providing our customers with the best options on GCP. Our mutual long history helping enterprises solve their big data challenges, coupled with our constant focus on supporting our customers, makes this partnership a fantastic formula,” said Sudhir Hasbe, director of product management, Google Cloud.
Qubole is now available in public preview on Google Cloud Platform. For more information about how Google Cloud and Qubole simplify big data processing, check out our blog post, sign up for a test drive, or visit Qubole.com.
About Qubole
Qubole is revolutionizing the way companies activate their data – the process of putting data into active use across their organizations. With Qubole's cloud-native Data Platform for analytics and machine learning, companies exponentially activate petabytes of data faster, for everyone and any use case, while continuously lowering costs. Qubole overcomes the challenges of expanding users, use cases, and the variety and volume of data while constrained by limited budgets and a global shortage of big data skills. Qubole's intelligent automation and self-service supercharge productivity, while workload-aware auto-scaling and real-time spot buying drive down compute costs dramatically. Qubole offers the only platform that delivers freedom of choice, eliminating legacy lock in – use any engine, any tool, and any cloud to match your company's needs. Qubole investors include CRV, Harmony Partners, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Singtel Innov8. For more information visit us online.
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