Cloudera Launches Around Hadoop

Copyright Peter DaSilva for the New York Times

Congratulations! Cloudera launched today to bring Hadoop to the enterprise. It's anchored by Mike Olson, Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, and Jeff Hammerbacher. Hadoop is the open source project that implements MapReduce, the algorithm that allows companies like Google and Yahoo (and even Microsoft) to search cheaply and easily enormous quantities of data and assemble the results. As most enterprises don't have the sort of operations staff that a Google might have, Cloudera will provide enterprise qualified software, training and consulting.

I've known Mike for a long time now since his days as CEO at SleepyCat before they were acquired by Oracle. I had the pleasure of working with Christophe as a speaker at the inaugural Open Source Forum at the Beijing Software Innovation Summit in China a couple of years ago while he was still at Google. It was Christophe that put together the original training program around Hadoop for university students. Congratulations and best wishes!

P.S. Christophe seems to have gone all corporate with his hair.

The launch video on YouTube