{"id":142,"date":"2008-10-13T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/the-startup-is-cloudera-the-business-is-hadoop-mapreduce\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T04:14:52","slug":"the-startup-is-cloudera-the-business-is-hadoop-mapreduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/the-startup-is-cloudera-the-business-is-hadoop-mapreduce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Startup is Cloudera, the Business is Hadoop MapReduce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudera.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cloudera.png\" alt=\"Cloudera Logo\" width=\"208\" height=\"53\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" frame=\"0\"\/><\/a>  The new company I am starting is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudera.com \">Cloudera<\/a>, it will be offering support for <a href=\"http:\/\/hadoop.apache.org\/\">Hadoop<\/a>, think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudera.com\/hadoop-support\">RedHat for Hadoop<\/a>, but that is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>My co-founders are a bunch of really interesting folks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mike Olson<\/b> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/database_apps\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207501602\">article about Mike<\/a> from InformationWeek to find out more.<\/li>\n<li><b>Christophe Bisciglia<\/b> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_52\/b4064048925836.htm\">article about Christophe from BusinessWeek<\/a>, his <a href=\"http:\/\/lazowska.cs.washington.edu\/bw\/bwcover.jpg\">photo was featured<\/a> on the cover of that issue.<\/li>\n<li><b>Jeff Hammerbacher<\/b> just left Facebook, where he started and managed the <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffhammerbacher.com\/post\/40036150\/my-good-friend-musical-mastermind-matt-omalley\">Data Team<\/a>. The team made a lot of contributions to Hadoop under his stewardship, most important of which is <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/hadoop\/Hive\">Hive<\/a> (a SQL structured data layer on top of Hadoop). You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffhammerbacher.com\/\">Jeff&#8217;s Mainly Data Blog here<\/a>, and you can also watch a video of him giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/next.yahoo.net\/archives\/79\/big-data-viewpoints-from-the-facebook-data-team\">talk about Facebook at Yahoo<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to these folks, we also started building out our founding engineering team: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/homes\/ak\/\"><b>Aaron Kimball<\/b><\/a> joined us as a full-time software developer, and so did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexemetech.com\/\"><b>Tom White<\/b><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexloddengaard.com\/\"><b>Alex Loddengaard<\/b><\/a> joined us as an intern, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/~matei\/\"><b>Matei Zaharia<\/b><\/a> joined us as a part-time consultant. We are hiring a couple more engineers, but that&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>We are in the process of wrapping up our funding (we don&#8217;t need any more cash at this point), and will soon announce our investors and technical advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; amr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}