Enterprise Hadoop distribution vendor Cloudera has secured a US$160m round of financing from a group of investors that includes Google and Michael Dell's investment firm.

The latest round brings the size of Cloudera's venture funding purse to $300m. The company said it will use the funds to expand into Europe and Asia, grow services and support capabilities, scale its field and engineering organizations and generally drive enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

According to Cloudera, bringing the popular open source framework for storing and processing vast amounts of data in parallel on clusters of commodity servers to the enterprise is the most important technological change in the data center for the next ten years.

T. Rowe Price led the round, which included Google Ventures as well as an affiliate of MSD Capital, a private investment firm for Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell.

T. Row Price portfolio manager Henry Ellenbogen said Cloudera was successfully helping enterprises take advantage of big data and become more data centric. “With strong leadership, an ability to innovate, a satisfied customer base, and a large partner community, we believe Cloudera is well positioned to build a durable and leading company in this space,” he said.

In February, the company announced the Enterprise Data Hub, a package of software that includes the company's SQL analytics engine called Impala, interactive search, a data management solution, an interactive analytics and stream processing application and a solution for online NoSQL storage and applications.