Omer Trajman | Hadoop Summit 2012
The Cube - Hadoop Summit 2012 - Omer Trajman, Cloudera, with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly Wibidata, a hot Silicon Valley, announced on their blog yesterday that Cloudera alpha geek Omer Trajman, has joined Wibidata to head up and scale the company’s field operations. WibiData is defining a new space in Big Data, focusing on solutions that use all the data an organization has to create more people centric applications. Omer comes from Cloudera where he had a great run building up and driving their very successful field operations in getting large enterprises to adopt and put into production Hadoop. I spent 1.5 years working out of the Cloudera offices when they had less than 30 employees and had a chance to get to know Omer both as a executive and a person. Omer is a star. He’s the real deal. Omer’s new role at Wibidata, which has less than 20 employees, will be heading up field operations for Wibidata. The company is gaining fantastic traction in closing the gap for the use and implementation of developing and deploying of big data applications. At Cloudera, Omer defined the first enterprise large scale applications with the most innovated early adopters who embaced Hadoop and put it into action. Omer is legend at Cloudera for really knocking it out of the park in driving the success of 1st generation enterprises solutions that set the bridge for the crossing of the chasm. As Hadoop use crosses the chasm with analytics as the current killer app, the next set of growth will come from the proliferation of applications then transactions. Today most companies have rules based applications or build algorithms that use samples of data. With WibiData, applications can be highly customized for end users. That means a better customer experience, more targeted content and opens the door to wider adoption across industries such as with personalized medicine. Wibidata was founded two years ago by Cloudera employees Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball. Today WibiData has eighteen employees and has shipped version 2 of their product and are growing fast. They have built a differentiated framework that sits on top of the Hadoop platform and gives developers the power to build more robust Big Data Applications. According to my sources at Cloudera, Omer left on great terms with the team there. Mike Olson is an investor in Wibidata and has been vocal in predicting an application surge in the Hadoop ecosystem. Recently, Ed albanese, another Cloudera rockstar, joined 10Gen to bring his bus dev magic as VP of Business Development to the massively growing MongoDB firm 10Gen. I’m impressed with Wibidata and the rock solid team. They are doing amazing work with Hbase. Wibidata has a good business model that is differentiated by gather data inside an enterprise with a fully functional Hadoop Hbase stack which requires installation on premise and use of their professional services. The top folks at Wibidata include: Christophe Bisciglia – CEO Arron Kimbal CTO Garrett Wu – Dir Engineering Chad Metcalf – Early employ at Cloudera Wibidata is located in the Mission district in San Francisco. On a personal note: I have had a great experience with Wibidata guys and all the top guys have been interviewed on SiliconANGLE.tv theCUBE except for Garrett Wu (I’ll get him soon). Here are some video interviews with the Wibidata team