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“The move towards Big Data and NoSQL is being fuelled by big
money, as investors bet on the next big thing in technology.“One of those venture capitalists is Frank Artale, a partner
with Ignition Partners and an investor in Apache Hadoop startup
Cloudera and NoSQL vendor Couchbase. In an exclusive interview with
InternetNews.com, Artale explained that Ignition wanted to have a
footprint in cloud and Big Data for a variety of reasons.“In his view, there is the potential for several large
multi-billion dollar companies to exist in the Big Data space,
which is one of the reasons the firm invested in Cloudera.”