Cloudera Buys Analysis Specialist DataPad

Enterprise analytic data management firm Cloudera has acquired DataPad, a platform which helps users integrate, analyse and distribute their data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

San Francisco-based DataPad was launched in May by CEO Wes KcKinney and CTO Chang She, with a $1.7m round of seed funding. The firm has launched a visual analytics platform for small businesses and individuals, and the 'Pandas' open source library, which provides data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programing language.

Cloudera says the buy will strengthen its enterprise data hub, by simplifying the processing and analysis of big data. McKinney and She will join Cloudera to help the firm build data 'backends' for business intelligence and analytics.

Peter Cooper-Ellis, Cloudera's VP, Engineering, comments: 'We've long been supporters of the DataPad team and have been impressed with their engineering work. Together, we possess some of the best talent in the data engineering sphere. The deep Python expertise that DataPad brings to Cloudera will further accelerate our data engineering capability.'

Earlier this year, Cloudera announced a $740m round of funding from Intel, having a few weeks earlier, raised $160m from Google Ventures and others. Web sites: www.cloudera.com and www.datapad.io .