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How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data

October 27, 2011
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Eric Baldeschwieler, Hortonworks — Eric Baldeschwieler, aka Eric14, CEO of Hortonworks.

Credit: Jim Merithew / Wired.com

The email went to Eric14. His real name is Eric Baldeschwieler, but no one calls him that. At fourteen letters, Baldeschwieler is a mouthful, and he works in a world where a name takes a backseat to an online handle.

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