[ANNOUNCE] Cloudera Director 2.1.0 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.1.0.

Cloudera Director provides a simple, reliable, enterprise-grade way to deploy, scale, and manage Apache Hadoop in the cloud of your choice. Cloudera Director is available as a free download for use with Cloudera Express and is fully supported with Cloudera Enterprise. Cloudera Director 2.1.0 includes the following new features:

• Usage-based billing for Cloudera services
• Support for running Cloudera Manager and CDH clusters on Microsoft Azure
• Support for deploying Cloudera Manager and CDH on a different cloud provider or region than Cloudera Director with a simple network setup
• Supports Cloudera 5.7 out of the box
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Links to the product and documentation are listed below:

• Download Cloudera Director from: http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads.html
• View the documentation:
• Cloudera Director Release Notes
• Getting Started
• Installing Cloudera Director Client
• Installing Cloudera Director Server

As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please post your questions and comments on our community forum.