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An increasing number of IT groups are finding themselves adding one or more Hadoop clusters to the mix. Project Serengeti virtualizes Hadoop clusters, making them easier to deploy and easier to manage. It's one thing for a vendor to claim that, and it's another thing entirely to find a customer that agrees with you. This blog post comes to you courtesy of Sasha Kipervarg, the Director of SaaS Operations at Identified -- a targeted analytics-based SaaS offering for recruiting professionals. I was curious about how people actually use Serengeti with VMware, and Sasha was kind enough to be interviewed. I found a lot that was interesting here -- maybe you will as well? The Business Of Talent Recruitment Identified has a neat business model: use powerful algorithms that uses social feed data to help zero in on hard-to-find talent. Their first product -- Identified Recruit -- helps recruiters target scarce healthcare professionals such as registered nurses -- and has meet with good success. From my perspective, there's obvious room to expand in other dimensions: tech professionals as well as other hard-to-find talent. Their "secret sauce" isn't in the data itself -- it lies in their ability to extract signal from... |
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