I recently worked on a project that exposed me to a stack of hardware and software, which includes an open-source framework, called Hadoop. Curious, I looked up the company and was surprised to find their logo is a caricature of an elephant. A yellow elephant.

Doug Cutting, the founder of Hadoop, named the company after his son’s toy elephant.

As I delved into the project, I continued researching companies to better understand how their software fit into the stack. Over the course of my Googling, a theme emerged. Even though these applications are rudiment in complex systems for big data, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, software defined storage, and containers, they have amusing logos.

Previously, when I considered software for data centers and cloud services calico cats, butlers, bumble bees with big ears, geckos, and black cats didn’t come to mind. Then again, the Linux logo is a silly penguin, and Red Hat is known for its iconic red hat.

Check out the logos for GitHub, Jenkins, Hadoop, Hive, Project Calico, Docker, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Oozie, Apache Pig, MySQL, SUSE, Linux, and Python.