CRN Exclusive: 20 Tough Big Data Questions For Pivotal's Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz, the CEO of Pivotal, the ambitious new big data venture from EMC and VMware, spoke with CRN Editor News Steven Burke about the company's plans to build an "open, data-centric, cloud-independent platform" for building big data applications and services. Here are 20 tough questions that Maritz tackled as the new EMC-VMware venture moves aggressively to snuff out Amazon Web Services' market momentum.

Also, check out the entire CRN exclusive interview with Maritz.