Cloudera floats commercial Hadoop distro
Face it: You want to launch your own Google and get your hands on some of that (easy?) internet money. Well, now's your chance to take a stab at it.
Today, a startup called Cloudera is launching a commercial distribution of the Google-inspired open source Hadoop software underpinning Yahoo, Facebook, and a number of other hot-shot web companies.
Hammerbacker is an entrepreneur in residence at venture capitalist Accel Partners, and back in October, Accel kicked in $5m in Series A funding for Cloudera. The startup has also tapped Hadoop creators Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella as advisors as well as Diane Green (founder and former CEO at virtualization specialist VMware) and Marten Mikos (the former CEO of MySQL before Sun Microsystems bought it). These and a handful of other tech luminaries are not just advisors, but investors in Cloudera.
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