Weathering the Current Environment, Cloudera Launches a Quite Storm
By Azam on October 14, 2008 
The founder Amr announced in his blog the launch of the starup, the company has not announced any investors at this point. The company aims to provide the infrastructure to allow firms to build highly scalable web applications and services.
From VentureBeat
Hadoop is an open-source software project designed to let developers write and run applications that process huge amounts of data. Hadoop uses the Google created MapReduce program that divides applications into small blocks of work, creating multiple replicas of data blocks that it places on various computer nodes.
The benefits, as stated by the official Hadoop open-source site, include:
Scalable: Hadoop can reliably store and process petabytes.
Economical: It distributes the data and processing across clusters of commonly available computers. These clusters can number into the thousands of nodes.
Efficient: By distributing the data, Hadoop can process it in parallel on the nodes where the data is located. This makes it extremely rapid.
Reliable: Hadoop automatically maintains multiple copies of data and automatically redeploys computing tasks based on failures.
Clouldera is found team includes ex-Yahoo engineering vice president Amr Awadallah, Christophe Bisciglia from Google, Jeff Hammerbacher from facebook, and Mike Olsen of Sleepycat/Oracle. Awadallah is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners and will likely back the venture
Reading & Reference
Ted Dziuba’s post in The Register
Categories : TechTags : Accel Parners, Amazaon, Cloud Computing, Cloudera, EC2, Elastic Compute Cloud, Hadoop