Cloudera announced that Apache Kudu is now shipping as a generally available component within Cloudera Enterprise 5.10. Kudu simplifies the path to real-time analytics, allowing users to act quickly on data as-it-happens to make better business decisions. Kudu was designed from the ground up to take advantage of innovation in the hardware landscape, which has seen solid state storage, memory, and RAM become more affordable. As a standalone storage engine, Kudu has already proven itself for mission-critical production use in clusters with hundreds of nodes handling many millions of inserts per second. Kudu is purpose-built to enable use cases that require fast, large-scale analytic scans while supporting rapidly updating data - necessary for handling time series data, machine data analytics, online reporting, or other analytic or operational workload needs. In addition to Kudu, Cloudera 5.10 (and the release of Cloudera Director 2.3) continues to enhance enterprise-grade capabilities for cloud deployments and improve cost-efficiencies in these environments. New capabilities include: Reduced operating costs for batch processing on transient workloads with improved performance of Apache Hive on Amazon S3. More comprehensive auditing and lineage in the cloud with single-cluster Cloudera Navigator support for Amazon S3. Reduced time to deploy an initial use case with faster first run deployments across cloud environments.