Cloudera and Intel Accelerate Big Data Encryption by 2.5X

Cloudera and Intel have been able to achieve a 2.5X improvement in encryption off-load performance, enabling an entire Hadoop data set to be encrypted with a system overhead that ranges from only 1% to 4% depending on the workload.

The gains are made by optimizing Cloudera’s distribution, including Apache Hadoop, with the latest Intel Xeon processor with embedded Intel AES New Instructions (Intel AES-NI) has enabled more robust protection of critical enterprise data. As a result, full database encryption is now possible with minimal impact to system performance so that processing resources can run Hadoop jobs at a faster rate, and perform additional Hadoop jobs to accelerate business insights.

Cloudera also disclosed that following Intel’s $740M investment last year, its annual recurring subscription software revenue grew 100 percent year-over-year and enterprise subscription software customers grew by more than 85 percent.

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