Komatsu has signed up Cloudera to provide a machine-learning and analytics platform, to improve its heavy equipment offerings for global mining customers. Running on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, the Cloudera Enterprise system will be providing monitoring analytics for the machinery powering surface and underground mining, allowing Komatsu to better serve their customers. Komatsu says the new system has doubled its longwall mining production hours. It’s a big win for Cloudera, a provider of a machine-learning platform and analytics tools, which is now the brains behind the JoySmart Solutions platform, which ingests, stores, and processes data from the machines. It is then used to monitor operations – working out what is ‘normal’ behavior, sending out alerts if dangers are spotted, and guiding…