The growth of big data and the continuing dramatic decline in the cost of storage and computer processing are having a profound impact on the way business is being conducted across sectors. An updated network infrastructure is essential to keeping the data flowing smoothly throughout your organization and enabling timely, precise analytics that enhance business decision making. Arista and Cloudera have partnered to create networking architectures that accelerate big data productivity by increasing performance, simplifying network scale-out, and tying into Hadoop’s topology aware storage architecture.