IPO, Initial Public Offering, a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
Cloudera ( half bought by Intel ) > MapR ( recently funded by Google Capital and Qualcomm) > Hortonworks ( funded by Google Venture)??
Google Capital: bigger fund for late stage startups
Google Venture: smaller fund for early stage startups
AWS
EC2 Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute, provides scalable virtual private servers using Xen.
S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service, provides storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent).
EMR Amazon Elastic MapReduce, allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.

Tableau BI vs. MS BI