Cloudera Founded
Cloudera is one of three companies that provide the main commercial distributions of open source Hadoop.
The company was founded in 2008 by three engineers from Google, Yahoo, and Facebook, along with a former Oracle executive, and released its first Hadoop distribution in 2009. One of the creators of Hadoop, Doug Cutting, serves as chief architect at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company. 
Cloudera received funding from a number of Silicon Valley regulars, but chip giant Intel took a majority stake in the company in March 2014. 

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