Because Hadoop is very popular with customers, many companies have launched their own versions of Hadoop, and some companies focus on HadoopDevelop products。In the Hadoop ecosystem, Cloudera is the largest and most well-known company.[2]
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Cloudera fromFacebook、GoogleandYahooFormer engineer Jeff Hammerbacher, Christopher Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah and current CEOOracleMike Olson, a former executive, founded it in 2008.[2]
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Hadoop data management software andService ProviderCloudera has completed a new round of financing,Raised funds$65 million,ValuationIt reached US $700 million.[2]
In just four years, Cloudera has grown from an unknown start-up company to a company that enterprises have to rely on when dealing with data challenges.
On December 6, 2012, Cloudera ushered in another important milestone.The company has raised US $65 million in the E-round financing. This round of financing is fromAccel PartnersLeading investment, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners continue to follow.Accel Partners also led the implementation of Cloudera's round A financing of $5 million in 2009.
After the completion of E-round financing, Cloudera's total financing reached about 140 million dollars.According to insiders, Cloudera's valuation in this round of financing is about 700 million dollars.Cloudera also said that it would set up a new office in the UK in the first quarter of 2013 to continue expanding its business in Europe.
In addition, Yodlee andAribaFormer CFO Jim Frankola also joined Cloudera on October 3 as the new CFO of the company.With the news of a new round of financing, speculation about Cloudera's going public is bound to heat up.In this regard, Olsen and Frankra both said in an interview on Monday that they are full of expectations for the future development of Cloudera, and it would certainly be better if they could go public.Olsen said, "From the very beginning, we saw that there are huge opportunities in this field, which is enough to build a long-term business."
Frankra is fromIBMStarted his ownCareer, and he still haswork experienceThe memory is still fresh: "At IBM, we will invest billions of dollars to bet on some major projects, but when you come to a smaller company, sometimes you have to put investment safety first. But the field we are involved in is currently one of the biggest bets in the technology industry."[2]
Ping Li, partner of Accel Partner, has been a loyal supporter of Cloudera for a long time and once created the "big data fund" of Accel Partner（Big DataFund)，Provide financial support to enterprises that have established cooperation with Hadoop.When talking about the founders of Cloudera, he said, "When they decided to promote Hadoop services to the enterprise market, they also set off a wave of big data."
Many people are not particularly clear about the specific businesses Cloudera is engaged in. According to Frankra, since its inception, the company's revenue and number of customers have basically doubled every year.Li Ping said, "In the field of software and infrastructure, this kind of rapid growth is really rare." Cloudera has many well-known companies among its customers, such asAOL、CBS、eBay、Expedia、JPMorgan Chase、Monsanto、NOKIA、RIMandDisneyEtc.
Occasionally, someone will associate Cloudera with open source software companiesRed HatBy comparison, the latter's business is to help enterprises deploy and manage for freeLinuxOperating system, but this comparison is actuallyinaccurateOf.In theory, Hadoop, like Linux, is free, and any company can download it for free.
But the problem is exactly how enterprises use and manage Hadoop products, how to tap its value, and how to promote their own business growth.Cloudera will provideprofessional servicesAnd profit from it.Cloudera sells Hadoop based software and also publishes its own version of Hadoop products to help subscribers manage data.[2]
Cloudera officially entered China in 2014.[3]
Intel announced in March 2014 that it would invest a large amount of money in Cloudera,Total investmentIt has increased to $740 million, accounting for 18% of the shares. It has become the largest strategic shareholder of Cloudera.It is understood that the cooperation between the two sides will be carried out in many ways: Intel's Hadoop distribution (hereinafter referred to asIDH）It will be incorporated into Cloudera Hadoop distribution (CDH).CDH 5.3 released this Friday will fully integrate all functions of IDH, and IDH users can also quickly and smoothly migrate to the CDH platform.In addition, Cloudera will cooperate with Intel in open sourceIntel PlatformA lot of optimization has been done on hardware to make Intel hardware platform the best platform for running big data.
In October 2018, Cloudera and Hortonworks, both open source platforms, announced their merger at a price of 5.2 billion dollars.The two companies said that after the merger, the company would have 2500 customers, $720 million in revenue, $500 million in cash, and no debt.[1]
