Search tech guru Doug Cutting leaves Yahoo, joins Cloudera
Doug Cutting, the respected open source engineer who has led the way in speeding up the processing of huge amounts of data, is leaving Yahoo to join a startup called Cloudera.
Cutting announced the move on his blog yesterday. The move is significant for two reasons. One, it’s one more sign that Yahoo is losing the guts of its search intelligence now that it has ceded its search initiatives to Microsoft leadership (even though Cutting says… Continue Reading
Cloudera raises $6M more for serious data processing
Cloudera, a startup that helps companies process large amounts of data using an open source platform called Hadoop, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.
The San Francisco company has an impressive founding team, including high-level folks from Facebook, Google, and Yahoo. Previous backers include Accel Partners, former VMware chief executive Diane Greene, former MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos, and Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu. Cloudera CEO Mike Olson says the eight-month-old… Continue Reading
Cloudera closes $5M to deliver data mining software
Cloudera, the Burlingame, Calif.-based distributor of open-source data processing engine Hadoop, brought in $5 million in first-round funding led by Accel Partners. Founded just last year by executives and data managers at Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo, the company works to adapt the Hadoop system to gather and organize massive sets of data for use by companies of all different sizes.
In the past, Cloudera has taken funds from individual investors including Palm senior vice president… Continue Reading
Ex-Google, Yahoo, Facebook employees snub recession, launch Hadoop startup
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Recession be damned, a group of top Silicon Valley engineers have come together to launch an interesting startup called Cloudera. Not yet launched, it intends to help other companies adopt a promising software platform called Hadoop.
Hadoop is an open-source software project designed to let developers write and run applications that process huge amounts of data. While it could potentially improve a wide range of other software, the ecosystem supporting its implementation is still developing. Which… Continue Reading