Why VCs will continue to invest in big data startups

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Robert Cathey

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Bias wrote a post that more broadly reflects what these … startups represent.  The market is going through a deep disruption. It’s a model ‘pioneered by the most massive Internet players (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter).  This IT model starts with datacenters built with extreme power efficiencies (PUEs reaching 1.2 or less), extends to open hardware projects (like Open Compute), and reaches into the transformation to a scale-out software architecture model (epitomized by “big data” projects like Hadoop and Cassandra).’

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