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Well backed Silicon Valley start-up Cloudera has now released a free, private cloud-oriented distribution of a Linux software environment first built by major Web enterprises for “big data.”
“Hadoop offers capabilities for capturing, storing and analyzing data that are unmatched. But it’s something that enterprises have shied away from until now,” said Michael Olson, [...]

Cloudera, the start-up that going to commercialize Hadoop, the Google-inspired, Apache-fostered open source software that powers the data processing engines behind some of the biggest and most popular web sites – sites like Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google itself – even Microsoft – pulled in a $5 million first round led by Accel Partners.
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Face it: You want to launch your own Google and get your hands on some of that (easy?) internet money. Well, now’s your chance to take a stab at it.
Today, a startup called Cloudera is launching a commercial distribution of the Google-inspired open source Hadoop software underpinning Yahoo, Facebook, and a number of other hot-shot [...]

Creating a business around free software is hardly a new idea: Cygnus Solutions, based around Stallman’s GCC, was set up in 1989. But here’s one with a trendy twist: a company based on the open source *cloud computing* app Hadoop, an Apache Project:
Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications [...]

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Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story.
Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data. On Monday, they’re revealing a commercial product based on the open source software Hadoop, which provides the analytical [...]