Cloudera, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based data management company, will provide the storage for Cerner's data analytics effort.
Cerner is branching into health data analysis and will use Cloudera's Enterprise data hub, built on Apache Hadoop, to analyze its more than two petabytes of patient data from several hundred clients, according to a news release. Cerner has already implemented the technology and reports it is working efficiently to make accurate predictions about patient health.
"Cerner is using Cloudera to capture, organize, analyze, and act on [health] data," said Mike Olson, founder and chief strategy officer for Cloudera, in a news release. "We're proud to be working with them on such an important effort, and we're eager to help them extract new insight from the data and to translate them into positive changes for the healthcare system and patient outcomes."
Cloudera's platform is built on opensource and draws from Apache Hadoop, a common software framework scripted in Java, to store and provide multiple tools to analyze uploaded data.