Silicon Valley's top technicians are switching to Hadoop start-ups

Silicon Valley start-ups are increasingly recruiting top technicians from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook giants, which have opted for Hadoop technology.

Index investment Mike Volpi

Hadoop is a software that manages large data, and can easily store large amounts of information and sift through valuable trends at lower cost. Google's flu announcement, for example, is based on Hadoop technology to make a forecast of flu outbreaks by collecting a search for flu-related information in a particular region.

Why Hadoop?

Hadoop allows the enterprise to build a series of previously unavailable applications that can handle the first-order petabytes of data and do not require expensive dedicated hardware. In the past, it was only through supercomputers and powerful networks that this vast amount of data could be processed. Now, with just a few ordinary low-cost servers, you can do trend analysis, weather forecasts, and social media data mining applications.

That's why so many tech wizards are flocking to these startups. MAPR is such a typical start-up company.

MAPR co-founder M.c.srivas, who previously led a search architecture team at Google. There's Dave Jespersen, former EMC technology vice president, and Brad Mandell, the global head of the former Cisco Security program. MapR even attracted former Microsoft security product director Tomer Shiran.

MAPR was founded by former Cisco manager, Barry Eggers of the VCs Lightspeed and former VMware manager Peter Sonsini, who has now joined NEA.

Mike Volpi, who once worked for Cisco mergers and acquisitions, has now joined the index investment and has successfully invested in another Hadoop start-up, Hortonworks. Hortonworks from Yahoo split out, so and Yahoo's IT service business close. The company was founded by former Sun's vice president of development, Mark Himelstein.

And Cloudera, founded by former Yahoo employee Amr Awadallah, attracted former Facebook employee Jeff Hammerbacher, VMware's Ed Albanese and Charles Zedlewski of SAP. Cloudera has received 40 million dollars in support. (CSDN compilation/Bao)

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