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Cloudera, Inc. is a Santa Clara, California-based company that provides an?enterprise data cloud accessible?via a subscription fee. ... Cloudera's platform works across hybrid, multi-cloud and on-premises architectures and provides multi-function analytics throughout the edge to AI data lifecycle.
Cloudera, Inc. was formed on June 27, 2008 by?Christophe Bisciglia?from?Google, Amr Awadallah from?Yahoo!?and?Jeff Hammerbacher?from?Facebook?joined by former?Oracle?executive Mike Olson.?Olson was the CEO of?Sleepycat Software, the creator of the open-source embedded database engine?Berkeley DB, acquired by Oracle in 2006. Awadallah was from Yahoo!, where he ran one of the first business units using Apache Hadoop for data analysis.?At Facebook, Hammerbacher used Hadoop for building analytic applications involving massive volumes of user data.Architect?Doug Cutting, also a former chairman of the?Apache Software Foundation, authored the open-source?Lucene?and?Nutch?search technologies before he and?Mike Cafarella?wrote the initial Hadoop software in 2004. He designed and managed a Hadoop storage and analysis cluster at Yahoo! before joininIn March 2009, Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Distribution Including?Apache?Hadoop?in conjunction with a $5 million investment led by?Accel Partners.
In October 2010, the company raised $25 million in its third round of funding.
In August 2011,?Dell?announced a partnership with Cloudera.
In November 2011, the company raised $40 million from Ignition Partners,?Accel Partners,?Greylock Partners,?Meritech Capital Partners, and?In-Q-Tel, a?venture capital?firm with open connections to the?CIA.
In January 2012,?Oracle Corporation?announced a partnership with Cloudera for its?Oracle Big Data Applian.
In April 2013,?SAS Institute?announced a partnership with Cloudera.g Cloudera in 2009.