Neil Lund
Cloudera is only 3 years old. It has the makings of becoming a billion dollar company in the near future. They provide customer support and tools that take advantage of an open-source platform called Apache Hadoop that they distribute. Cloudera offers many ways your company can take advantage of Hadoop including categories like E-tailing, Financial Services, Government, Health and Life-Sciences, Retail/CPG, Telecommunications and Web and Digital Media Services. In 3 years time they have already landed some big named clients such as Adconion, AdGooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AOL Advertising, Apollo Group, Inc., Concurrent Computers, Explorys Medical, First Life Research, Groupon, Huron Consulting Group, JiWire, Klout, NAVTEQ, Opower, Rackspace US Inc., Samsung, Trends Micro Inc., Trulia, Tynt and the C.I.A. among many others.
In 3 years time Cloudera has built up their investments to reach over $75 million and growing. Cloudera has partnered up with Acer, AMD and Aster Data. One of Clouderas Co-founders Amr Awadallah told Business Insider “We are building this to be a huge, huge company,” he also said “My preference is to go public but it could be a big suitor taking it.” Who could be the big suitor? Dell perhaps? Whichever suitor chooses Cloudera, it is no doubt that Cloudera is a start-up to keep your eye on.
