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Cloudera: Hadooping The Downturn

A group of Silicon Valley technologists are thumbing their noses at the down(turn)-talk and setting up a new venture to provide support to companies wanting to make use of Hadoop.

Bay-area based Cloudera will provide enterprise-level support for Apache’s top level, open source map reduce technology, which enables companies with large amounts of data to have significantly more detailed analysis and efficiencies related to this data.

The team includes Michael Olson, the former CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of the open source embedded database engine Berkeley DB, which Oracle acquired in 2006.

Other founders include Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the data team at Facebook and Christophe Bisciglia, who created Google’s Academic Cloud Computing Initiative.

According to Venturebeat, the fourth founder, Amr Awadallah, is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners - while this does not guarantee they will back Cloudera (ask former Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale - he was an EiR with them before they passed on funding Second Life), there is a good possibility they will tip into a round to get the company operational.

Tags: Accel, Amr Awadallah, Cloudera, Hadoop, Jeff Hammerbacher, Michael Olson

Metarand Unplugged: TechnologyOne’s Adrian Di Marco On The Lack Of Australian Government Focus on Technology

Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia TechnologyOne is a leading enterprise software solutions provider with a fully integrated “Connected Intelligence” suite of products that places it well ahead of its competitors.

In this session of Metarand Unplugged we talk with Adrian Di Marco, the Founder and Executive Chairman of this ASX-listed company.

Adrian has played a major role in building and supporting the Australian information and communications industry, both through his roles on industry bodies and as an investor in early stage ventures. He talks candidly about the Australian government’s paucity of support for this all important industry.

He sits at the helm of one of Australia’s most successful software companies and is clearly passionate about the space and about creating the right kind of framework and ecosystem in the country that will enable it to achieve benefits for years to come.

His thoughts are not only very pertinent to Australia, but also to any other country and group of entrepreneurs faced with a similar situation.

Stream the Session in Quicktime:

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Stream the Session as an mp3:

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Tags: Adrian Di Marco, TechnologyOne