big data cloud computing hadoop founded 2011 founders jonathan gray nitin motgi headquarters palo alto california usa key people jonathan gray co founder and ceo nitin motgi co founder tom leonard sales vikram bhan operations boyd davis coo andreas neumann software products cdaptm cooprtm tigontm website www.cask.co cask is a cloud based big data application platform for developers . rather than providing a cloud service for writing and running hadoop jobs cask allows developers to build deploy and manage big data applications on top of components within the hadoop ecosystem more easily . 1 contents 1 naming 2 product 3 leadership 4 funding 5 see also 6 references 7 external links naming edit the word cask signals that cask s software provides containers a way for different types of applications to run in concert and share data for instance . cask is short sweet and developer y jonathan gray ceo said . 2 it was formerly named continuuity . product edit the cask data application platform cdap is an open source project for distributed data and applications . cdap is a layer of software running on top of hadoop platforms . cask coopr is open source cluster management software that provisions manages and scales clusters on public clouds and private clouds . tigon is a distributed framework built on apache hadoop and apache hbase for real time high throughput low latency data processing and analytics applications . 3 the company s primary offering cdap its data application platform helps users build apps that use hadoop in smarter ways beyond to build a low cost large data warehouse . cask also offers coopr a tool that helps users quickly and easily provision clusters in the cloud . given the distributed nature clusters like hadoop can be difficult and time consuming to deploy . cask first developed and used coopr as an internal tool before its customers showed interest because of coopr s convenience . coopr works in public private and openstack clouds so developers can use it to provision cdap hadoop in any of them . 4 cask has teamed with at & t labs on an open source project called tigon formerly jetstream that pairs a high throughput sql database with a real time data processing engine . the goal is to underpin applications that can handle multiple levels of latency consistency and analysis on streaming data . 5 leadership edit co founders nitin motgi and jonathan gray were early adopters of the hbase big data technology while working at facebook and yahoo . 6 motgi and gray s firsthand experience of dealing with the limiting complexities of big data platform motivated them to build the cdap platform to make big data development exponentially simpler while completely retaining its power . funding edit cask s approach to hadoop virtualization first attracted attention from renowned venture capital firm andreessen horowitz which participated in series a and a2 rounds totaling 12.5 million . in november 2015 cask announced a further 20 million series b financing . this was led by safeguard scientifics with participation from battery ventures ignition partners and other existing investors . 7 backing the data and app virtualization approach is mike olson chief strategy officer at cloudera a software giant specializing on hadoop who says cask will expand the big data market by enabling new use cases while accelerating application development . 8 see also edit platform as a service big data cloudera hadoop at & t references edit http gigaom.com data ex yahoo facebook big data vets launch paas for hadoop http blogs.wsj.com venturecapital 2014 09 25 hadoop developer cask formerly continuuity goes open source http cask.co products http thenewstack.io continuuity becomes cask and keeps focus on bringing hadoop to the enterprise https gigaom.com 2014 06 03 att labs continuuity will open source a hadoop streaming engine called jetstream http adtmag.com articles 2012 10 24 continuuity targets big data developers.aspx safeguard scientifics inc. cask announces 20 million series b financing led by safeguard scientifics . http www.datanami.com 2014 09 25 hadoop data virtualization cask now open source external links edit cask s corporate site cask s blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cask company & oldid 723440639 categories big data companieshadoopinformation technology companies of the united statestechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areacompanies based in palo alto californiaamerican companies established in 2011technology companies established in 2011privately held companies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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