Today in Cloud
With Aster Data’s Big Data Summit and Cloudera’s Hadoop Summit being held tonight and tomorrow, respectively, at the same NYC venue, large-scale analytics are as hot today (literally, Oct. 1, 2009) as ever. Particularly hot today is Yahoo, which has a couple of executives spilling the beans about Yahoo’s large web infrastructure/cloud, and its continued commitment to Hadoop for non-search workloads (search falling under Microsoft’s control shortly). Hadoop also is getting love from Aster Data, which today announced two-way data transfer between Hadoop and Aster’s massively parallel database. On the cloud front, GigaSpaces’ Nati Shalom lays out the case for running MapReduce apps in virtualized cloud environments.
