Hadoop Gets a Big Push

For those of us immersed in the cloud industry, this is big news:

http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-yahoo-launching-hadoop-spinoff-this-week/

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!