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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

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Cloudera + Hortonworks, from the Edge to AI

Cloudera

That team delivered the first production cluster in 2006 and continued to improve it in the years that followed. In 2008, I co-founded Cloudera with folks from Google, Facebook, and Yahoo to deliver a big data platform built on Hadoop to the enterprise market. It staffed up a team to drive Hadoop forward, and hired Doug.