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Internal cloud's big test: Amazon vs. Cloudera

The debate about the validity of internal cloud implementations has raged on for some time now, with some claiming that cloud computing and wholly owned infrastructure don't mix, and others pointing out that applying "on demand," "at scale," and "multitennant" to enterprise IT data centers offers unique advantages to those who have already made that investment. It has been difficult, however, to do an objective comparison of the two approaches--until now.

The announcement on Thursday of Amazon's new Hadoop-based Elastic MapReduce service, combined with the introduction of a commercial Hadoop distribution from start-up Cloudera, … Read more

Cloudera harnesses Hadoop for the enterprise

The industry's premier Web players--Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook--agree on at least one thing: the future is cloud computing, and Hadoop is the engine to power the cloud.

Cloudera, the company set up to harness the power of Hadoop for the enterprise, on Monday released its first commercial product, the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop.

The Web, and how enterprises use it, will never be the same.

If I sound a little giddy, it's because I am. I think that Cloudera's distribution for Hadoop is one of the biggest things to happen to the enterprise ever because it … Read more

Understanding MapReduce and Hadoop (Video)

For those of you interested in just how cloud computing (and I do mean, computing) works, check out this video from a recent AWSome Atlanta Cloud Computing User's Group. Twitpay's Don Brown explains how open source applications MapReduce and Hadoop are used to process enormous amounts of data at Google and other large websites.

For more on MapReduce, check out these articles by Eugene Ciurana. For more on Hadoop (including support) check out Cloudera.

Via John M. Willis

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Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus

Without a doubt, the cloud and all its forms and meanings were big news in 2008. Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we saw Salesforce launch Force.com, a true platform-as-a-service.

My picks for the most interesting software of 2008 are Hadoop and Eucalyptus.

Hadoop is an Apache project, the "open source implementation of MapReduce, a powerful tool designed for the detailed analysis and transformation of very large data sets," which basically means you can process a ton of data on commodity hardware.

Hadoop is going commercial through Cloudera and while details are not publicly available, let's just say there are some very important and interesting foundations being laid for the way that people deal with computing and processing power. … Read more