2014年大数据行业最顶尖的人才有哪些？《财富》选出20位明星

    NuoDB首席执行官巴里•莫里斯

    很多科技公司都想发起一场技术革命，但是很少能获得上一波技术革命领导者的支持。马萨诸塞州剑桥市的NuoDB公司却一举网罗了上一波数据库革命“四大天王”的其中之三——Ingres公司前CEO加理•摩根泰勒、Sybase公司前CEO米切尔•克兹曼、Informix公司前CEO罗杰•斯普尔。只有最后一名“天王”，也就是甲骨文（Oracle）的CEO弃权了，但他也身在投资人之列。这么一家名不见经传的公司何以有这么大的号召力？因为NuoDB的技术解决了一个多年来被行业视为“圣杯”的问题：如何让一个数据库在多个服务器上运行。“关键在于用更多的机器，而不是更大的机器。”该公司CEO巴里•莫里斯表示：“那个问题听起来虽然简单，但一直没得到解决。”DuoDB公司成立于2010年，现在这家公司已经签下了一个大客户——欧洲第二大软件厂商达索系统公司（Dassault Systèmes）。另外莫里斯认为，公司正在飞速朝着一个“新的聚焦点”迈进。他认为DuoDB将走上舞台的中央。“它的意义不在于数据的规模或运行速度，而在于形成一种数据导向型模式。持续改进的能力才是它的革命性所在。”——Andrew Nusca

    Barry Morris, Chief Executive Officer, NuoDB

    Many technology companies promise to spark a revolution, but very few have the backing of the leaders of the previous one. Cambridge, Mass.-based NuoDB counts three of the four horsemen of the previous database wave—former Ingres Corp. CEO Gary Morgenthaler, former Sybase Inc. CEO Mitchell Kertzman, and former Informix Software CEO Roger Sippl, with only a certain Oracle chief executive abstaining—as investors. Why? Because NuoDB’s technology solves a problem that many industry veterans long considered to be the Holy Grail: run a database on multiple servers. “It’s about more machines, not bigger machines,” CEO Barry Morris says. “That problem, simple as it sounds, was as yet unsolved.” First funded in 2010, Morris’ company recently landed a massive customer—DassaultSystèmes, the second-largest software vendor in Europe—and is hurtling toward what Morris calls “a new convergence point.” He’s convinced NuoDB will be at the center of it. “It’s not about size or speed of the data. It’s about being data-driven,” he says. “Continuous improvement—that’s the revolution.” —Andrew Nusca