Mike Olson interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
Cloudera packages Hadoop into a production-ready CDH bundle and reports enormous adoption across finance, telecom, government and retail as companies ingest terabytes routinely and face messy logs, audio, video and user‑generated content. The platform is five to eight years old, now complemented by connectors to RDBMS, business-facing UIs and machine‑learning tooling that can run on thousand‑node clusters. Many analytic apps and vertical solutions remain unbuilt, so proof‑of‑concepts succeed but broad, polished business tools are still emerging.
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