Cloudera Named Network Product Guide Best Overall IT Company For Third Consecutive Year

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, Inc. (NYSE: CLDR), the leading provider of the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies, announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Cloudera a silver winner of the 12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards® in the Best Overall IT Company category. This recognition marks Cloudera's third consecutive year as a winner of the IT World Awards®, having won gold in the same category in 2016 and 2015.

Cloudera received recognition for its significant momentum over the past year with advancements in machine learning impacting the Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, data science and the cloud across multiple industries. Cloudera's platform is uniquely designed to enable the rapidly growing data science community and new machine learning applications, allowing enterprises to identify trends in historical data, to recognize events in current or streaming data and to predict events in the future.

"At Cloudera, we focus on discovering a true problem to be solved then innovating a repeatable solution that will help many customers," said Amr Awadallah, chief technology officer of Cloudera. "We use this as a guiding principle for developing the best modern platform for converting data into value, thus making what is impossible today, possible tomorrow."

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the annual IT World Awards® encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

Cloudera would also like to congratulate Securonix, one of its Apache Spot partners, for being named a gold winner in the Best Overall IT Company category.

See other notable industry accolades for Cloudera.

About NPG's IT World Awards
As industry's leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. The Annual IT World Awards is part of the SVUS Awards® recognition program from Silicon Valley in the United States of America which also includes other programs such as CEO World Awards, Consumer World Awards, Customer Sales and Service World Awards, Golden Bridge Awards, Globee Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards, Info Security PG's Global Excellence Awards, Pillar World Awards, PR World Awards, and Women World Awards. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

About Cloudera
Cloudera delivers the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies. The world's leading organizations trust Cloudera to help solve their most challenging business problems with Cloudera Enterprise, the fastest, easiest and most secure data platform available for the modern world. Our customers efficiently capture, store, process and analyze vast amounts of data, empowering them to use advanced analytics and machine learning to drive business decisions quickly, flexibly and at lower cost than has been possible before. To ensure our customers are successful, we offer comprehensive support, training and professional services. Learn more at cloudera.com.

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