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Cloudera uses proprietary management tools to prevent commoditization by large vendors
“Because we've got some management monitoring administrative tools That the big, well-capitalized vendors can't simply pick up and use against us. We've got a reason for customers to come and talk to us. It's not really about lock-in. It's about lock-out for IB…”
Lonsdale: Startups must be an order of magnitude better than IBM
“It has to be something that they desperately need, and it has to be an order of magnitude better if you're a small company. You can't just come in and have a slightly better solution than IBM and then somehow win an RFP. It just, it never works.”
Semmelhack: IoT killer apps will come from startups, not GE or IBM
“My feeling is that the cool new killer apps are not gonna come from GE or Cisco or IBM. They're gonna come from, like, folks who are in this room, and, ah, I just think historically it's been proven.”
IBM began offering open-source alternatives within 2.5 years of Cloudera's founding
“At two and a half years, IBM was looking at what we were doing and offering their own open source alternatives, so.”
Microsoft, Google, and IBM build computational services on Jupyter
“Many, many companies are actually building on top of this platform, ah, to build out, ah, computational services, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Continuum analytics and more.”
DataKind volunteers mapped poverty across Kenya and Uganda in two hours.
“So a team from IBM and Mozilla basically built a classification algorithm that would find the different roof types. Interesting regression model we could talk about later. But what it allowed them to do is basically build this map of roofiness be a proper stat…”