Episode 78: Amr Awadallah On The Biggest Challenges And Opportunities in Enterprise IT Today

Aug 20, 2021

Amr Awadallah is widely known as a founder of Cloudera. Prior to
that he was working on extreme scale data solutions for Yahoo. Most
recently he was VP for Developer Relations at Google Cloud. Amr has
a BS in EE from Cairo University, an MS in Computer Engineering
from Cairo University, and a PhD EE from Stanford University. His
experiences in tech and company leadership put him in the perfect
position to help bring actionable insights to decision-makers
today.

Topics we discussed include:

• Lessons from his foundational story which can inform how to
  inspire the youth of today to continue pursuing their dreams and
  reaching for deeper understanding of the world and how it
  works.
• The world before scalable data systems and the problems with
  old approaches to data
• The breakthroughs that came with the approaches detailed in
  Google papers on their file system and an approach called Map
  Reduce.
• What Hadoop is
• The Cloudera approach of making Hadoop and related capabilities
  safe for enterprise use
• The leadership approach at Cloudera
• Advice for founders today
• The biggest challenges and opportunities in enterprise IT
  today
• Views on the future of cybersecurity
• A discussion on the metaverse and what comes next