The Startup is Cloudera, the Business is Hadoop MapReduce
The new company I am starting is called Cloudera, it will be offering support for Hadoop, think RedHat for Hadoop, but that is just the beginning.
My co-founders are a bunch of really interesting folks:
- Mike Olson was CEO of Sleepycat, which commercialized Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle after they acquired SleepyCat in 2006. You can read this article about Mike from InformationWeek to find out more.
- Christophe Bisciglia just left Google, he created and managed their Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, which is a public hadoop cluster for academia/research. You can read this article about Christophe from BusinessWeek, his photo was featured on the cover of that issue.
- Jeff Hammerbacher just left Facebook, where he started and managed the Data Team. The team made a lot of contributions to Hadoop under his stewardship, most important of which is Hive (a SQL structured data layer on top of Hadoop). You can read Jeff’s Mainly Data Blog here, and you can also watch a video of him giving a talk about Facebook at Yahoo.
In addition to these folks, we also started building out our founding engineering team: Aaron Kimball joined us as a full-time software developer, and so did Tom White. Alex Loddengaard joined us as an intern, and Matei Zaharia joined us as a part-time consultant. We are hiring a couple more engineers, but that’s it for now. The skills required are a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems and strong C++/Java programming experience, we also have one position for an outstanding front-end developer, specifically Javascript/AJAX.
We are in the process of wrapping up our funding (we don’t need any more cash at this point), and will soon announce our investors and technical advisors.
Cheers,
– amr
Amr breaks the news!
Looking forward to doing great things together.
Comment by Mike Olson — October 13, 2008 @ 7:29 pmCongrats Amr!!
Comment by fffabulous — October 13, 2008 @ 7:34 pmHiring any product managers
) HUGE congrats. This is going to be big. Hope you are doing well…..Rob
Comment by Rob Solomon — October 13, 2008 @ 8:40 pmCongratulations Amr, this is a very exciting space! Scaling databases seems like a major pain point, and several companies that I know are looking at Hadoop. And this looks like a great team to execute in this space. Cheers!
Comment by Guido Appenzeller — October 13, 2008 @ 9:57 pmCongrats Amr & best of luck!
Comment by Bill — October 13, 2008 @ 11:05 pmCongrats Amr! And Congrats Jeff too! (if you are reading this post)
Lmk if the cloud is reaching Bangalore anytime soon…
Comment by Vishy — October 14, 2008 @ 1:53 amFantastic!
I assume that accel is one of your investors.
Comment by Jeremy Zawodny — October 14, 2008 @ 6:38 amCongratulations Amr! As Hadoop users ourselves, this is exciting news.
Comment by Michael Lum — October 14, 2008 @ 9:50 amCongrats Amr… this is good stuff!
Comment by mmk — October 14, 2008 @ 11:21 amcongratulations! way to go.
Comment by yunfang — October 14, 2008 @ 12:24 pmWay to go. EIR no more - now Co-Founder Cloudera…
congrats
Comment by John Furrier — October 14, 2008 @ 1:42 pmWell done!
Comment by Chris DiBona — October 14, 2008 @ 2:21 pmCongrats! I’m rooting for you guys to take over the cloud. All the best.
Comment by Vik Singh — October 14, 2008 @ 5:11 pmperfect timing for hadoop and web scale. Christophe is awesome, and I am sure you guys will do some really interesting things, above and beyond offering open source insurance!
Comment by Dion Almaer — October 14, 2008 @ 6:17 pmCan I join this meritorious team, please let me know know how to reach you.
Comment by vidya — October 14, 2008 @ 8:02 pmThanks for all the congrats folks.
Comment by amr — October 15, 2008 @ 9:57 amVC’s fall all over themselves to throw money at a team like this. It’ll be interesting to see what Cloudera offers.. surely it will not be limited to just consulting services.
Comment by jb — October 15, 2008 @ 10:14 am