Cazena

Cazena operated as a Big Data-as-a-Service company, offering a fully managed cloud service for enterprise data analytics. Founded in 2014 by Prat Moghe, the company emerged from the experience of leaders from Netezza, a data warehouse appliance company acquired by IBM. Moghe, who previously served as SVP at IBM Netezza, brought deep expertise in data warehousing and analytics to Cazena, aiming to simplify the complexities of big data infrastructure.

The company's core offering was the "Instant Cloud Data Lake," a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to accelerate time-to-analytics from months to minutes. This platform automated the provisioning and management of a complete and secure data lake environment on public clouds like AWS. Cazena's solution addressed a significant market pain point: the difficulty, cost, and specialized DevOps skills required for enterprises to build and operate their own cloud data lakes. The business model was subscription-based, providing the infrastructure, data platform, analytic engines, and ongoing operations as a single, turnkey service.

Cazena's platform provided an end-to-end, orchestrated environment that included infrastructure provisioning, continuous security monitoring, and automated operations. It allowed clients to use their existing BI and analytics tools to analyze data as if it were on their local systems. Key features included automated deployment of a production-ready environment, enterprise-grade security with continuous monitoring and compliance, and workload optimization for performance and cost. The service was designed to handle a variety of workloads, from business intelligence and streaming data processing to machine learning and AI, without requiring customers to manage the underlying infrastructure. On June 1, 2021, Cazena was acquired by Cloudera for approximately $57.8 million, a strategic move to enhance Cloudera's public cloud offerings and accelerate its push into self-service, low-code analytics.

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