Cloudera Raises $65 Million in Round Led By Accel - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

For the NoSQL meme-bust watch: not a single instance of "NoSQL" in this article

"Hadoop has become a big thing, and in fact there are numerous flavors of it and numerous companies offering their own version of it, while others are building things to work with it.
The biggest and best known company in the Hadoop world is Cloudera. Started in 2008 by a trio of engineers from Facebook, Google and Yahoo (Jeff Hammerbacher, Christophe Bisciglia and Amr Awadallah) plus CEO Mike Olson, a former Oracle exec, it has in four years gone from the start-up that few really understood to the company you have to talk to if you want to stand a chance wrestling your data challenges to the ground."

Cloudera Raises $65 Million in Round Led By Accel - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD