Apache Hadoop
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HP, Intel, Yahoo join forces on cloud computing research
News A new "test bed" project will give the three companies, as well as partnering researchers, access to top-notch hardware for exploring the future of the hot server-outsourcing technology.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Business applications, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Google Inc., India
Yahoo teams up with Indian supercomputer for cloud computing research
News As an extension of its commitment to the Apache Hadoop open-source project, the Net giant partners with Indian research firm Computational Research Laboratories.
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
News Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data mining & analysis, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, Dana Gardner, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., API, software, job
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
More universities join Yahoo for Net-scale research
News UC Berkeley, Cornell, and UMass Amherst will get access to Yahoo's M45 cluster for large-scale data-processing research using software called Hadoop.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Supercomputing, Yahoo! Inc., Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, Carnegie-Mellon University, National Science Foundation, Internet
How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off
News With Yahoo counting on cloud computing to accelerate development, a behind-the-scenes IT guy like Shelton Shugar moves into the spotlight.
Tags: Cloud computing, Yahoo! Inc., Virtualization, software, Open-source Software, Apache Hadoop, Cloud computing, Server, corporate computing, Internet
Yahoo to distrbute its version of Hadoop
News Hadoop is an open-source grid computing project, and demand for Yahoo's take on that software has led the company to make available its own code.
Tags: grid computing, Open source, Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apache Hadoop, Server, blog, Benefit, Open source
