Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5.7M Round In Analytics Platform For Hadoop Data Platfora

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Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss is joining the board as part of the investment. Hadoop supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers processing enormous amounts of data. Platfora works with existing Hadoop clusters, including Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon EMR, among others, and automatically turns these huge amounts of data into dimensional and predictive dashboards, reports and insights. Platfora eliminates the need for traditional data warehouses, ETL tools and the legacy BI products of the past. Weiss says that Andreessen Horowitz has been sitting on sidelines of making a big investment in Hadoop for some time now.

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