<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
is	O
an	O
American	O
software	O
company	O
providing	O
an	O
enterprise	O
data	B-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
and	O
analytics	B-General_Concept
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
platform	O
can	O
run	O
in	O
a	O
private	O
cloud	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
on	O
AWS	B-Application
,	O
Azure	B-Application
,	O
and	O
GCP	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
store	O
and	O
analyze	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
using	O
hardware	O
and	O
software	O
in	O
cloud-based	B-Architecture
and	O
data	O
center	O
operations	O
,	O
spanning	O
hybrid	O
and	O
multi-cloud	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
offers	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
analytics	B-General_Concept
for	O
data	O
distribution	O
,	O
data	B-Application
engineering	I-Application
,	O
data	O
warehousing	O
,	O
transactional	O
data	O
,	O
streaming	B-Operating_System
data	I-Operating_System
,	O
data	O
science	O
,	O
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
was	O
formed	O
on	O
June	O
27	O
,	O
2008	O
,	O
by	O
Christophe	O
Bisciglia	O
(	O
from	O
Google	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Amr	O
Awadallah	O
(	O
from	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
)	O
,	O
Jeff	O
Hammerbacher	O
(	O
from	O
Facebook	B-Application
)	O
,	O
and	O
Mike	O
Olson	O
(	O
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Awadallah	O
oversaw	O
a	O
business	O
unit	O
performing	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
using	O
Hadoop	O
while	O
at	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
;	O
Hammerbacher	O
used	O
Hadoop	O
to	O
develop	O
some	O
of	O
Facebook	B-Application
's	O
data	B-General_Concept
analytics	I-General_Concept
applications	O
;	O
and	O
Olson	O
formerly	O
served	O
as	O
the	O
CEO	B-Application
of	O
Sleepycat	O
Software	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
that	O
created	O
Berkeley	B-Language
DB	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2009	O
,	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
released	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
Distribution	O
for	O
Hadoop	O
(	O
CDH	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
commercial	O
distribution	O
of	O
Hadoop	O
,	O
in	O
conjunction	O
with	O
a	O
$5	O
million	O
investment	O
led	O
by	O
Accel	O
Partners	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rob	O
Bearden	O
was	O
appointed	O
as	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
's	O
CEO	B-Application
in	O
January	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2014	O
,	O
Intel	O
invested	O
$740	O
million	O
in	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
for	O
an	O
18%	O
stake	O
in	O
the	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
shares	O
were	O
repurchased	O
by	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
in	O
December	O
2020	O
for	O
$314	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Over	O
the	O
next	O
four	O
years	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
share	O
price	O
declined	O
in	O
the	O
wake	O
of	O
falling	O
sales	O
figures	O
and	O
the	O
rise	O
of	O
public	O
cloud	B-Architecture
services	I-Architecture
like	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2018	O
,	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
and	O
Hortonworks	B-Application
announced	O
their	O
merger	O
,	O
which	O
the	O
two	O
companies	O
completed	O
the	O
following	O
January	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
has	O
formed	O
partnerships	O
with	O
companies	O
such	O
as	O
Dell	O
,	O
IBM	O
,	O
and	O
Oracle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
provides	O
the	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
Data	O
Platform	O
,	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
products	O
related	O
to	O
cloud	B-Architecture
services	I-Architecture
and	O
data	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
of	O
these	O
services	O
are	O
provided	O
through	O
public	O
cloud	O
servers	O
such	O
as	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
or	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
while	O
others	O
are	O
private	O
cloud	B-Architecture
services	I-Architecture
that	O
require	O
a	O
subscription	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
markets	O
these	O
products	O
for	O
purposes	O
related	O
to	O
machine	O
learning	O
and	O
data	B-General_Concept
analysis	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
