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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. The opportunity has only grown with the advent of practical Internet of Things applications. The two of them started the Hadoop project to build an open-source implementation of Google’s system.