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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2006: Amazon spearheads the cloud initiative, drops EC2 and S3 into the market. 2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. Hadoop was developed in 2006. Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s.

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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. Yahoo quickly recognized the promise of the project.