Cloudera raises $6M more for serious data processing

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