Hortonworks联合创始人阿兰•默西

    阿兰•默西最早在雅虎公司（Yahoo）工作，现在已然用途极广的开源存储和处理软件Hadoop在那时尚处于早期原型阶段。默西的团队的任务就是扩展Hadoop的功能，让它用于雅虎的网页搜索。于是默西研发了一个名叫YARN的资源负载管理系统，它的作用大致相当于Hadoop的一个操作系统。默西表示：“第一版的Hadoop看起来就像还在用Notepad的Windows，但是我们真正想要的是能用Powerpoint、Word和Excel的Windows。”这正是YARN的魅力所在：它允许用户向Hadoop中插入多种应用以存储各类信息。默西表示：“我家里有两个孩子，但YARN就像是我的第三个孩子。”——Robert Hackett

    Arun Murthy, Co-founder, Hortonworks

    Arun Murthy started off at Yahoo when Hadoop, the open-source storage and processing software that powers much of the web’s big data, was an early prototype. His team’s mission was to scale it for Yahoo’s web search. Murthy helped develop a resource and workload management system called YARN that acts as a sort of operating system for Hadoop. “Hadoop ‘One’ looked like Microsoft Windows with notepad,” Murthy says. “What you really want is Windows with PowerPoint, Word, Excel and so on.” That’s what YARN enabled: It let users plug many applications into Hadoop to store all sorts of data. “I have two kids at home,” Murthy says. “YARN is sort of my third.” —Robert Hackett