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Derrick Harris
Senior Writer
Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on the planet. Derrick lives in Las Vegas and has a law degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Away from the office, Derrick trains in muay thai and is active in animal welfare issues.
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Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly doesn’t often mince words when it comes to describing his competition in the Hadoop space, or Cloudera’s position among those other companies. In October 2013, Reilly told me… Read more »
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If it feels like we’re in the midst of robot renaissance right now, perhaps it’s because we are. There is a new crop of robots under development that we’ll soon be… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers… Read more »
Metamarkets, a San Francisco startup providing streaming analytics to advertisers, has raised a $15 million round of venture capital. Data Collective led the round, which also included John Battelle and City National… Read more »