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Tsinghua University turns to US tech firm for big data push
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August 10, 2016 News

China’s prestigious Tsinghua University is teaming up with the United States tech firmCloudera Inc to meet the country’s growing demand for big data talents.

Under the deal, Cloudera, which offers Apache Hadoop-based software and services, willprovide free big data curriculum resources to Tsinghua University, to cultivate more talentsthat can fuel China’s big data drive.

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and distributedprocessing of very large data sets on computer clusters. Currently, most big dataprofessionals learn and share their knowledge on the open-source online community.

Tsinghua University said it would offer five to 10 Hadoop courses to both undergraduates andpost graduates. In addition to basic abilities, it will also work with Cloudera to focus on furtherresearch so as to promote the development of the global big data industry.

The partnership comes as China steps up efforts to encourage traditional enterprises toembrace big data and other cutting-edge tech to counter against slower economic growth.With Internet data centers building around the country, there is a big shortage of big datatalents.

Cloudera, which chip giant Intel Corp invested $740 million into, is one of the pioneers inoffering big data training services. The deal is also part of the US firm’s broad efforts to tapinto commercial opportunities in China.

Doug Cutting, Chief Architect of Cloudera and the co-creator of Apache Hadoop, saidChinese companies such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd allhave been using Hadoop for many years and also contributed significantly to its development.

Research firm International Data Corp predicts that the global big data market will reach$23.8 billion this year.

 This article was originally published on www.chinadaily.com.cn  and can be viewed in full

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