Cloudera, Inc. is an American

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company providing enterprise data management systems that make significant use of Apache Hadoop. As of January 31, 2021, the company had approximately 1,800 customers.

History

Cloudera, Inc. was formed on June 27, 2008, by Christophe Bisciglia (from

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), Amr Awadallah (from

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), Jeff Hammerbacher (from

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), and Mike Olson (from

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). Awadallah oversaw a business unit performing data analysis using Hadoop while at Yahoo!; Hammerbacher used Hadoop to develop some of Facebook's data analytics applications; and Olson formerly served as the CEO of Sleepycat Software, the company that created

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. The four were joined in 2009 by Doug Cutting, a co-founder of Hadoop. In March 2009, Cloudera released a commercial distribution of Hadoop, in conjunction with a $5 million investment led by Accel Partners. This was followed by a $25 million funding round in October 2010, a $40M funding round in November 2011, and a $160M funding round in March 2014. In June 2013, Tom Reilly became chief executive officer of the company, although Olson remained as chairman of the board and chief strategist. Both left the company in June 2019. Rob Bearden was appointed as Cloudera's CEO in January 2020. In March 2014,

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invested $740 million in Cloudera for an 18% stake in the company. These shares were repurchased by Cloudera in December 2020 for $314 million. On April 28, 2017, the company became a

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via an

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. Over the next four years, the company's share price declined in the wake of falling sales figures and the rise of public cloud services like

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. In October 2018, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced their merger, which the two companies completed the following January. In October 2021, the company went private after an acquisition by

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and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $5.3 billion. Cloudera has formed partnerships with companies such as

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, IBM, and Oracle.

Products and services

Cloudera provides the Cloudera Data Platform, a collection of products related to cloud services and data processing. Some of these services are provided through public cloud servers such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services, while others are private cloud services that require a subscription. Cloudera markets these products for purposes related to machine learning and data analysis.

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