Riptano, Cloudera For Cassandra
Riptano , a new company launched recently can be considered Cloudera of Cassandra project. This company was started by two ex-Rackspace employees (disclaimer: Rackspace’s Email Division is a client of Diversity Analysis) to provide support services for Cassandra much like how Cloudera was started to offer support services for Apache Hadoop. When I wrote about [...]
Cloudera Desktop Announced And More
Cloudera, the company that offers commercial support for Hadoop which is an open source implementation of mapreduce, announced the availability of Cloudera Desktop, at the Hadoop World Conference going on in New York City. Cloudera Desktop is a graphical front-end for managing and developing for Hadoop. It is available for download right now. Cloudera desktop [...]
Yahoo! Releases Its Own Hadoop Distribution
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase [...]
More Than Enterprise Scale, It Is Science Scale – Cloudera And Hadoop Are Shaking The Marketplace
Cloudera, the company offering commercial support to Hadoop (our previous coverage here), received 6 Million dollars Series B funding from Greylock Partners and Accel Partners. Om Malik further points out to the potential of Hadoop beyond the Web 2.0 applications. From the analysis of point-of-sale data to genomics data, the opportunities for Hadoop are plentiful, [...]
Academic Research On Cloud Computing Gets Funded
According to HPC Wire, San Diego Supercomputer Center is getting funded by NSF for research on Cloud Computing. Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets [...]
Yahoo Takes Another Step In Promoting Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo Inc, the battered internet giant, is helping institutions in India to modify their curriculum so that students are trained on cloud computing technologies. Even though the name Yahoo doesn’t usually come up in many discussions related to Cloud Computing, they are doing some really great work from behind. They are a big [...]
Cloudera – Redhat of Cloud Computing?
A group of Silicon Valley executives, Amr Awadallah (formerly with Yahoo), Christophe Bisciglia (ex-Googler), Jeff Hammerbacher (formerly from Facebook) and Mike Olson (an entrepreneur), have teamed up to launch CloudEra. There is not much info available at this point except the fact that the company will offer support for Apache Hadoop, a scalable, efficient and [...]
