He wants to make big data even bigger - IDG.se

MC Srivas, founder and CTO of big data-comet MapR is in Sweden to convert more users of its software MapReduce into paying customers.

broadcaster MapR has with giants like Google, Amazon, LinkedIn and ad giant Rubicon as customers. Success is that the company has managed to capitalize on Hadoop and NoSQL boom and the rapid growth of big data.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> – Big Data begins in earnest within the next 12 -24 months.

class=”paragraphIntro”> It says MC Srivas, global as CTO at MapR, to Computer Sweden, during a visit to Stockholm.

– More and more company is now moving from experimental to commercial projects, an increasing scale, he adds.

class=”paragraphIntro”> MC Srivas know what he’s talking about. He is a veteran of the Hadoop context.
Originally he comes from India but educated in the U.S., where he earned a master’s degree in computer and systems science and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

Then started the comet career.

He worked as Chief Architect at Spinnaker Networks delivered scalable architectures for virtualization and which was acquired by cloud provider Netapp 2003. He then led the development of the network file system Andrew File System on IBM now owned Transarc.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Before he was -founded MapR in 2009 led Srivas technological advances in search-based infrastructure at Google and helped to develop among other filesystem Google File System and big data environment MapReduce.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – Because we had several online companies that users felt we decided it was better to drive MapR as an external supplier and deliver MapReduce platform to Google, he says.

class=”paragraphIntro”> U.S. has been at the front when it comes to invest in it as MapR’s core niche: Hadoop-and NoSQL-based distributions, which has its sights targeting to compete with traditional decision support data warehouses and traditional relational databases.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Now is Europe on the way to embrace the trend. In 2012 started MapR a London office and then half a year is a Sweden company. In the coming months, several large Swedish customer contracts in the pipeline, says MC Srivas.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – We have a Sweden-office operation since half a year precisely because we seeing a rapidly increasing interest. Many Swedish companies use our big data and database tools for experimental installations in silence, but more and more starting now commercially motivated projects on a larger scale, the pay customers, he says.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – In the current situation we have 500 paying customers worldwide and more than 5000 users of our Hadoop distributions. In Sweden, I would bet on that we have about 4 paying customers and 40-50 companies that are looking at our tools and we expect a number of future business.