Inaugural Council Members Include Practitioners from The Broad Institute, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Texas at Austin

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, today unveiled its Precision Medicine Advisory Council to support the company’s commitment to the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in advancing the use of data and analytics in precision medicine and genomics. The Advisory Council will help Cloudera evaluate grant applications from university labs requesting software and training to analyze and manage precision medicine data.

“The National Institutes of Health says that big data is one reason precision medicine can exist today at scale,” said Mike Olson, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Cloudera. “Cloudera knows big data, and our customers, partners,