Getting Started with Apache Hadoop - Cloudera Administration - page 20

Introducing Cloudera
Cloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based American enterprise software company that provides
Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, and training to data-driven enter-
prises. It is often referred to as the commercial Hadoop company.
Cloudera was founded by three top engineers from Google, Yahoo!, and Face-
book—Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, and Jeff Hammerbacher.
Cloudera is the market leader in Hadoop and is one of the major code contributors to the
Apache Hadoop ecosystem. With the help of Hadoop, Cloudera helps businesses and or-
ganizations interact with their large datasets and derive great insights.
They have also built a full-fledged Apache Hadoop distribution called Cloudera's Distri-
bution Including and a proprietary Hadoop cluster manager called Cloudera Manager ,
which helps users set up large clusters with extreme ease.