Cloudera scores $160m from Google, other tech investors as big data makes headway in enterprises

March 19, 2014 Written by Jonathan Brandon
Big data platform specialist Cloudera announced Wednesday that the company has secured $160m in funding from T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures, and MSD Capital (Michael Dell’s private investment firm) among others. The company said the funding bolsters its leadership in the sector and will help accelerate the Hadoop specialist’s growth as enterprise adoption of distributed file systems hits the mainstream.