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Open Source Hadoop Cloud Gets Commercial
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| Scaling systems on a distributed basis to handle petabytes of information is
| no easy task, though it's one that the open source Apache Hadoop project
| delivers for such big names as Facebook, Google and Yahoo.
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http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3810826/Open+Source+Hadoop+Cloud+Gets+Commercial.htm
Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Olson, Cloudera
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| It's always hard to tell whether startups will flourish, but among the most
| critical factors for survival are the skills of the management team. The fact
| that less than three hours after I sent out some questions about Cloudera to
| Mike Olson, one of the company's founders, I had the answers back would seem
| to augur well in this respect.
|
| Olson explains the background to the company, and to Hadoop, the software it
| is based on: what it does, and why business might want to use it; he talks
| about his company's services and business model, and why he thinks cloud
| computing is neither a threat nor an opportunity for open source.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1999&blogid=14
Cloud Computing: Not Just Open Source, but *Like* Open Source
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| One of the many interesting replies that Cloudera's Mike Olson gave in his
| Open Enterprise interview yesterday concerned whether cloud computing was a
| threat or oportunity for open source. Here's what he said:
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| I think it's orthogonal. Cloud computing is about how you deliver software;
| open source is about how you develop and distribute it. The big cloud players
| are generally good citizens in the open source world, and open source
| software powers the cloud companies and the Internet generally.
|
| Nonetheless, one of the key issues is what is required to created truly
| *open* cloud computing services. Open source software is just part of this:
| portability of data stored in the cloud is also a key element. But there's
| another vitally important aspect that I've not seen discussed much before.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2005&blogid=14
Free-floating ERP: SaaS-based, open-source enterprise apps sit on Amazon cloud
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| Compiere, a supplier of open-source, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based
| business applications, says it has added the first full-scale ERP software
| suite to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
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http://www.mbtmag.com/article/CA6644698.html?industryid=47314
Recent:
Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours
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| Microsoft’s fledgling Azure Services platform, a beta offering that offers
| cloud computing services, suffered a 22 hour outage this weekend.
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http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2009/03/16/azure-joins-the-crash-club-down-for-22-hours.aspx
EUCALYPTUS: a Tree Growing in the Cloud
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| Most important for Linux Journal readers, “EUCALYPTUS is implemented using
| commonly available Linux tools and basic Web service technology making it
| easy to install and maintain”, they say.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eucalyptus-tree-growing-cloud
Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Olson, Cloudera
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| MO: I started college at Berkeley in 1979. In 1980, I got a work-study job
| for the Computer Systems Research Group, which produced the Berkeley Software
| Distribution -- what most people call "Berkeley Unix". I worked for Bill Joy
| and Bob Fabry on that project (and the guy in the next office was a kind of
| geeky grad student named Eric Schmidt...).
|
| I dropped out for a few years in 1982 and returned to Berkeley as an
| undergrad in 1988. I got a job working for Mike Stonebraker on the Postgres
| project, where I was one of the key developers. I got my BA in 1991, MSc in
| 1992 and left grad school in 1993 to join Stonebraker's Postgres startup,
| Illustra. One of the last things I did at Berkeley was to write, with Margo
| Seltzer, an embedded database engine called Berkeley DB.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1999&blogid=14
Zmanda Cloud Backup : Open Source Disaster Recovery Solution
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| Zmanda Cloud Backup is a cost-effective backup and disaster recovery solution
| for SMBs. Because putting together a comprehensive data protection strategy
| can be difficult for midmarket companies, the company positions Zmanda Cloud
| Backup (ZCB) has simplified the process.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/product/zmanda-cloud-backup--open-source-disaster-recovery-solution-246
Bottling the Magic Behind Google and Facebook
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| Hadoop is the open-source version of the file system and MapReduce technology
| developed by Google. Google has used such software to rewire its entire
| search index, making it possible for the company to run ever-faster searches
| on cheap servers and to ask questions of its vast data stores and receive
| coherent answers.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/bottling-the-magic-behind-google-and-facebook/
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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