What Happened?
Palo Alto, CA-based Hortonworks has announced the Resignation of Eric Baldeschwieler as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform. Our team comprises the largest contingent of builders and architects within the Hadoop ecosystem who represent and lead the broader enterprise requirements within these communities. The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open platform that deeply integrates with existing IT investments and upon which enterprises can build and deploy Hadoop-based applications. Hortonworks has deep relationships with the key strategic data center partners that enable our customers to unlock the broadest opportunities from Hadoop.
About the Person
Eric Baldeschwieler was co-founder of the Apache Hadoop. Prior to co-founding Hortonworks with more than 20 other engineers, Baldeschwieler served as vice president of Hadoop Software Engineering at Yahoo. Baldeschwieler actually joined Yahoo through an acquisition in 2003 when served as a technology leader for Inktomi’s web service engine, then picked up by the search company. Hortonworks itself is self-touted as a Yahoo spinoff, which broke off in 2011 as enterprise data platform for open source Apache Hadoop deployments.
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