Cloudera is a software company that provides enterprise data management, analytics, and machine learning solutions. The company was founded in 2008 by a group of engineers from Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook who were all early adopters of Apache Hadoop, an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets.
Cloudera’s core product is Cloudera Enterprise, a comprehensive platform that includes a suite of tools for data processing, storage, and analysis, as well as a range of enterprise-grade security and governance features. The platform is built on open-source technologies such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Apache Impala, and is designed to help businesses make sense of the massive amounts of data they generate and collect.
Cloudera serves a variety of industries, including healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, retail, and government. The company has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and its customers include many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies.