Hadoop Gets a Big Push

Originally posted 2011-06-28 10:52:37. For those of us immersed in the cloud industry, this is big news: http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-yah... It provides a heavy-weight's backing to a core cloud technology. Hadoop provides a core infrastructure that will become more and more necessary in distributed environments to improve overall cost efficiencies of carrying out high-compute intensive activities. Yahooooooo! [...]