
Don Clark and Deborah Gage write that Intel intends for the investment to help Cloudera further its Hadoop offering.
“We are making the biggest data-center equity investment we have ever made, ” said Jason Waxman, vice president and general manager of Intel’s cloud infrastructure group, according to the Journal.
Cloudera previously raised $160 million in financing and the company is valued at more than $1 billion, the Journal reports.