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Cloudera open source start-up offers Hadoop cloud software for ‘mere mortals’

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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, [...]