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05-Feb-2018<br />

Hortonworks accuses ex-sales bod of stealing customers for new job<br />

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Hortonworks is suing a former sales manager accused of taking contracts for himself and<br />

his next employer, according to court documents seen by The Register.<br />

The Apache Hadoop vendors allege that ex-enterprise sales account manager Ben Rudall<br />

used confidential information about the business and its customers to make contact with<br />

clients for the benefit of himself and his new employer, rival Snowflake UK.<br />

Snowflake - Cloud - Data - Storage - Firm Snowflake is a cloud data storage firm, and<br />

because "it provides data solutions for clients which need to process and store large<br />

volumes of data", Hortonworks considers them a direct competitor. This is supported by a<br />

court case between Hortonworks' Dutch branch and a former employee, where the court<br />

agreed that Hortonworks and Snowflake were competitors.<br />

Hortonworks claims that while on gardening leave, Rudall spoke to representatives from<br />

Lloyds Bank, Prevalent and O2, which...

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