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As the Open Source software movement continues the strengthen, questions abound about where the opportunities to create commercially viable solutions. Red Hat did it with Linux. Can Cloudera do it with Hadoop? Read this GigaOm article.

The guys from Cloudera put together the following executive overview of what Hadoop can do for big data.

Hadoop and Big Data 1: Challenging Old Assumptions from Cloudera on Vimeo.

Cloudera put together this list of 10 MapReduce tips.
You might also want to check out their list of 5 common Hadoop questions.

Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.
Introduction to Pig
Pig Tutorial

Cloudera anounced that they have recently raised $5M in a series A round of funding. Here’s the Techcrunch article. The NY Times blog post also featured Cloudera and their commercialization of the Hadoop open source file system. And here’s the full NY Times story.

Here are a couple event reminders from the Cloudera website.
Web 2.0 Expo 2009
Scaling with Your Data: An Introduction to Hadoop
March 31, 1:00 PM, 2009, San Francsico , California
Cloudera will provide a tutorial aimed at producers and users of large volumes of data. Do you deal with TBs on a regular basis? Are traditional databases not [...]