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Cleveland.com: Global big-data mission has local flavor: Tech Czar Talk

Written by OnShift | Feb 3, 2017 12:00:00 AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the region's best and brightest is running a global non-profit whose mission is committed to the simplification and standardization of the big-data ecosystem.

John Mertic is the director of Program Management at Open Ecosystem of Big Data or ODPi. ODPi is a program supported by the Linux Foundation and is instrumental in building an ecosystem around Hadoop and Big Data environments. Hadoop is an open-source, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing and storage of extremely large data sets in a distributed computing environment. Only 30 percent of Fortune 500 companies so far have adopted Hadoop.

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