In early 2012, a group of engineers with background in distributed systems and machine learning came together to form Adatao (a-’DAY-tao). We saw a major unsolved problem in the nascent Hadoop ecosystem: it was largely a storage play. Data was sitting passively on HDFS, with very little value being extracted. To be sure, there was MapReduce, Hive, Pig, etc., but value is a strong function of (a) s
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