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Google Acquires Open Source Big Data Platform Cask
- By Becky Nagel
- May 23, 2018
Last week Cask Data, known for its open source Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP), announced that it's being acquired by Google -- specifically Google's cloud division.
"We are thrilled to announce that Cask Data, Inc. will be joining Google Cloud!" the company's founders, Jonathan Gray and Nitin Motgi, said in its online announcement of the purchase.
"We could not have asked for a better home for our open source big data platform," they continued. "We believe the combination of CDAP and GCP [Google Cloud Platform] will provide compelling solutions for enterprise developers, bringing them new levels of accessibility, performance and scale."
Cask bills CDAP as the industry's "first unified integration" big data platform that "cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80 percent."
It is currently in version 4.3.4 and can be downloaded here.
"We're thrilled to welcome the talented Cask team to Google Cloud, and are excited to work together to help make developers more productive with our data processing services both in the cloud and on-premise," commented GCP Group Project Manager William Vambenepe in the same announcement. "We are committed to open source, and look forward to driving the CDAP project's growth within the broader developer community."
A tutorial on using CDAP to build a data lake with GCP can be found here.
About the Author
Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].