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- Who will control Hadoop?
- Who will control Hadoop?Death by explosive growthWhen I had just started my first .com, we were very successful. So successful we brought our servers to their knees and essentially killed the project before it had a chance to root.It sounds like this might be what is happening with Hadoop....
- Tags: Apache Hadoop
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Who will control Hadoop?
- Hadoop's importance has drawn a number of corporate sponsors to separately deliver their implementations. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all have their own takes on Hadoop, alongside Apache and Cloudera. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
- Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching serviceMaking MapReduce MainstreamHadoop is great for teams of developers to crunch data. However, the "tipping point" in bringing the value of MapReduce to companies is by providing enterprise-class database features such as security, tight SQL integration, and more. Aster Data offers nCluster on the Amazon...
- Tags: Databases, Storage, Apache Hadoop, Amazon.com Inc., MapReduce, database
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
- Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching statement. Hadoop, which is used by...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Amazon.com Inc., MapReduce Programming Model, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Could Cloudera become the open source Asia?
- Those of you old enough to remember the original Apple Macintosh may also remember the "super-group" known as Asia. The group became notorious for its ego battles, forming, breaking up, and reforming until it became something of a joke. (To the right is the present line-up for...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Blog, Asia, Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, Hammerbacher, Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Can Cloudera take Hadoop commercial?
- Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif. start-up, on Monday said that it has raised $5 million in venture funding and aims to take Hadoop, the open source software behind Facebook, Google and Facebook, to a data center near you. Hadoop is open source software used to store and process...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Game Plan, Cloudera Distribution, Data Centers, Storage, Team Management, Open Source, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Distributed Lucene : A Distributed Free Text Index for Hadoop
- This paper describes a parallel, distributed free text index written at HP Labs called Distributed Lucene. Distributed Lucene is based on two Apache open source projects, Lucene and Hadoop. It was written to gain a better understanding of the Apache Hadoop architecture, which is derived from work at Google on...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Distributed Lucene, Open Source
- White papers 2008-06-07
- Yahoo inks cloud computing research pact with Tata unit
- Yahoo said Monday that it has signed a cloud computing research pact with Computational Research Laboratories, a Pune, India-based subsidiary of Tata. Under the deal, Computational Research Laboratories CRL will make one of its supercomputers available for cloud computing research. Yahoo says it will use its CRL...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Computational Research Laboratories, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Open Source, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
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- Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul
- Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...
- Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academics
- It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the radar screen, with Microsoft's release of the Dryad code to academics and researchers. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Academics, Radar, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Can Google build open source communities
- Can Google build open source communitiesMore contributions, as more devices are deliveredAs more companies start delivering Android devices to the market, there is likely to be a significant increase in contributions to Android outside of Google. These contributions would be changes that companies made, in the process of building their...
- Tags: open source, Google Inc., open-source community, OPhone, contribution
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- GPL's cloudy future
- One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Does IT really need to fear multicore?
- Does IT really need to fear multicore?Gartner has hit the bottom...of the barrel. Obtaining software, OS's and apps, that take advantage of the cores is the ONLY issue. And what is there to fear about that?This is really a moronic idea. But coming from the morons at Gartner, I'm not...
- Tags: multi-core, ABC Inc., software company, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
- Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the companies announced Tuesday. The group will build a computing network comprised of six data centers on three continents in order to create a large-scale...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- HP, Intel and Yahoo team on cloud computing research
- Updated: HP, Intel and Yahoo have combined to launch an open source test bed that will encompass multiple data centers for cloud computing research. According to the companies statement, the trio of companies will create a global testing environment to examine software, hardware and management issues created...
- Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Open Source, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Business Structures, Data Centers, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
- Even though Microsoft and Yahoo allegedly are at the bargaining table, I can't help but wonder what Yahoo is doing behind the scenes to minimize Microsoft's impact when and if it acquires Yahoo. We already know that Yahoo CEO Yang created golden parachutes for Yahoo employees (along...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Open source and the copycat charge
- Proprietary vendors still accuse open source of just copying their innovations in order to drive down value for innovators. In some ways they have a point. VMWare will not get the monopoly rents it feels it deserves on virtualization because it has many open source competitors. ...
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Google and IBM help students learn parallel programming
- Google and IBM have announced a new initiative to help students and researchers learn how to create the massively parallel programs that will be needed to address large-scale problems of the future. The two companies are teaming up to provide hardware, software, developer tools, and services to support curricula created...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Plug-in, Programming, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Open Source, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
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