Cloudera

Cloudera, the once high-flying Hadoop startup, raised $1 billion and went public in 2018 before being acquired by private equity for $5.3 billion in 2021. Today, the company announced that…

Cloudera acquires Verta to bring some AI chops to its data platform

Cloudera, the Hadoop-centric big data company that IPO’d in 2017 and then went private again in a $5.3 billion deal in 2021, is now putting its emphasis on becoming the…

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When Cloudera announced its sale to a pair of private equity firms yesterday for $5.3 billion, along with a couple of acquisitions of its own, the company detailed a new…

With buyout, Cloudera hunts for relevance in a changing market

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Cloudera to go private as KKR & CD&R grab it for $5.3B

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Enterprise cloud giant Cloudera has pulled several of its cloud storage servers offline, despite initially claiming the servers were “open by design,” after a security researcher found sensitive internal files…

Cloudera pulls sensitive files from its ‘open by design’ cloud servers

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Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the biggest players in the Hadoop big data space, today announced that they have finalized their all-stock merger. The new company will use the Cloudera…

Cloudera and Hortonworks finalize their merger

Over the years, Hadoop, the once high-flying open-source platform, gave rise to many companies and an ecosystem of vendors emerged. It was long believed that some major companies would emerge…

Cloudera and Hortonworks announce $5.2 billion merger

Cloudera said today as part of its second-quarter earnings report that it is acquiring Fast Forward Labs, a startup that gives companies the latest information on how to apply machine…

Cloudera acquires AI research firm Fast Forward Labs

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After pricing its IPO at $15 per share, Cloudera, the enterprise big data company, closed the day up more than 20 percent, at $18.09. This also is above the range…

Cloudera finishes up 20% in stock market debut

Another day another IPO(s). Due to the recent success of public offerings from companies like Yext, Okta and Snap it seems the time is now for startups to go public. And tomorrow we have two…

Cloudera and Carvana, tech’s next two IPOs, both price at $15 per share

Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that’s received significant backing from Intel, has released the expected price range for its IPO. The company says it plans to price its shares between…

Cloudera expects market cap to be less than half private valuation

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When I first met Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly in 2015 at the Intel Capital Summit, we were about to go onstage for a fireside chat to discuss, among other things,…

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Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that’s received significant backing from Intel, has unveiled its much-anticipated IPO filing.

Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing

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