The document introduces the Cloudera platform for big data. It states that Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) is the most complete, tested, and popular open source distribution of Apache Hadoop. It includes core Hadoop elements as well as additional projects like Apache YARN, Impala, Hue, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Mahout, Oozie, and Flume. The document also mentions that Cloudera Manager provides a unified interface for installing, configuring, and managing CDH clusters through a web-based admin console. It briefly compares Cloudera to Hortonworks and DataStax platforms.