Cloudera asked Intel for $1 billion to build a cloud service

EXCLUSIVE: Open source big data software company Cloudera wants to do more.
About one month ago, Tom Reilly, the company’s chief executive, approached Intel with a proposal requesting $1 billion in new money, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat. The companies have a history together; in 2014 Intel announced a major partnership with and investment in Cloudera.
The plan is for Cloudera to build out the necessary data center infrastructure for new cloud services that the c