Comments on: Cloudera, a Hadoop-focused Startup, Gets $6M In New Funding

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By: What You Didn’t Know About Cloudera – GigaOM

What You Didn’t Know About Cloudera – GigaOM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:08:34 +0000

[...] 0 There are a few widespread misconceptions about Cloudera, the promising, well-funded Burlingame, Calif.-based startup that offers services, training and support for the open-source [...]

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[...] upcoming Hadoop Summit on June 10 marks a midway point in an eventful year for the technology. Cloudera, a high-profile startup that’s building commercial services around Hadoop, just announced $6 [...]

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Yahoo Touts Its Tweaked Version of Hadoop — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:01:41 +0000

[...] That’s more good news for Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif-based startup that builds commercial services around Hadoop. We reported last week that the company’s distribution has been gaining a lot of traction lately and received $6 million in Series B funding. [...]

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By: Hadoop-Centric Cloudera Gets $6 Million in Series B Funding | google android os blog

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:49:20 +0000

[...] As GigaOm reports: "Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif.-based start-up that is building commercial services around open source software framework Hadoop, has closed $6 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $11 million. The latest round of funding was led by Greylock Partners. Current investor Accel Partners also participated in this round." This is another sign that venture capital is flowing more freely toward open source now, and good news for Cloudera and its Red Hat-like business model. [...]

By: June 2, 2009 | next media update

June 2, 2009 | next media update — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:25:31 +0000

[...] Cloudera, a Hadoop-focused Startup, Gets $6 Million in New Funding GIGAOM Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif.-based startup that is building commercial services around open-source software framework Hadoop, has closed $6 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $11 million. The latest round of funding was led by Greylock Partners. Current investor Accel Partners also participated in this round. Cloudera’s other investors include Diane Greene and Marten Mickos (former CEO of MySQL). Cloudera was started in 2008 by Mike Olson; Christophe Bisciglia, who created and led Google’s academic cloud computing initiative; Dr. Amr Awadallah, Yahoo’s VP of engineering; and Jeff Hammerbacher, formerly with Facebook. Source> [...]

By: More Than Enterprise Scale, It Is Science Scale - Cloudera And Hadoop Are Shaking The Marketplace | CloudAve

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:51:40 +0000

[...] offering commercial support to Hadoop (our previous coverage here), received 6 Million dollars Series B funding from Greylock Partners and Accel Partners. Om Malik further points out to the potential of Hadoop [...]

By: Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps

Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:05:01 +0000

[...] told me earlier today. I spoke with Olsen after the Burlingame, Calif.-based company said it had raised $6 million in new Series B funding from Greylock Partners and Accel [...]

By: dave

dave — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:43:34 +0000

very nice – congratulations mike and team!

By: Cloudera Raises $6 Million From Greylock and Accel

Cloudera Raises $6 Million From Greylock and Accel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:14:14 +0000

[...] [via GigaOM] [...]

By: Niraj

Niraj — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:08:40 +0000

Did not get the business model of cloudera. what are they trying to sell – distribution, Training, Consulting. Jboss had a runtime to sell , Spring a proprietary programming model. With Hadoop driven by apache. What is the model.

Anyone more knowledgeable here??

By: Hush

Hush — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:40:59 +0000

Looks like a lot of companies are entering the cloud space. Good for consumers, hopefully more competition would lead to lower prices.