Cloudera

Cloudera

Cloudera, Inc. logo with tagline
Type	Privately held
Industry	Software Development
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California
Number of locations	Palo Alto, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Austin Texas, New Hampshire, Atlanta Georgia, Kirkland WA, McLean VA EMEA - London, Paris, Budapest. Asia / APJ - Shanghai China, Beijing China, Tokyo Japan, Singapore, Seoul Korea, Melbourne Australia, India Chennai
Products	Cloudera Manager, Cloudera Navigator, Gazzang, Cloudera Navigator Optimizer, Impala
Services	Apache Hadoop distribution with support, professional services and training
Number of employees	1,600
Website	www.cloudera.com

Palo Alto, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Austin Texas, New Hampshire, Atlanta Georgia, Kirkland WA, McLean VA

EMEA - London, Paris, Budapest.

Cloudera Inc. is a United States-based software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, and training to business customers.

Cloudera's open-source Apache Hadoop distribution, CDH (Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop), targets enterprise-class deployments of that technology. Cloudera says that more than 50% of its engineering output is donated upstream to the various Apache-licensed open source projects (Apache Hive, Apache Avro, Apache HBase, and so on) that combine to form the Hadoop platform. Cloudera is also a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.

Three engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook (Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah and Jeff Hammerbacher, respectively) joined with a former Oracle executive (Mike Olson) to form Cloudera in 2008. Olson was the CEO of Sleepycat Software, the creator of the open-source embedded database engine Berkeley DB (acquired by Oracle in 2006). Awadallah was from Yahoo, where he ran one of the first business units using Hadoop for data analysis. At Facebook Hammerbacher used Hadoop for building analytic applications involving massive volumes of user data.

Architect Doug Cutting, also a former chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, authored the open-source Lucene and Nutch search technologies before he wrote the initial Hadoop software in 2004. He designed and managed a Hadoop storage and analysis cluster at Yahoo! before joining Cloudera in 2009. Chief operating officer was Kirk Dunn.