Intel

Intel acquires a stake in the start-up Cloudera .

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) : Intel on Thursday announced  its  entry into the capital of Cloudera , a start -up in growth will become the main distributor of software in the field of "big data" .

The world number one computer processors said that he would become the largest shareholder of Cloudera after the investment , which comes as it seeks to expand its servers to compensate for the decline in the PC market.

This is the largest investment ever made by the group in the field of management of data centers, Intel said , without disclosing the amount.

Cloudera , Hortonworks and like its competitors Pivotal specializes in services using Hadoop , a free software to sort and use massive amounts of data (" big data" ) generated by the use of internet and mobile networks .

Intel will have a seat on the board of Cloudera .

He had announced last week that it has raised $ 160 million from T Rowe Price , Google Ventures and other investors , bringing to 300 million the total amount of capital raised since its inception.

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