Open source software ready for big business

Cloudera is bent on making the open source Apache project Hadoop easier to use and available to a wider audience. The powerful Hadoop technology is considered a cost-effective way to manage and store large amounts of data, and mine intelligence. Yahoo is the biggest contributor to the open source project also used by FacebookFacebook and GoogleGoogle. Alles zu Facebook auf CIO.de Alles zu Google auf CIO.de

Cloudera doesn't count that trio as customers, but the three offer proof as to the power of Hadoop.

Another cloud vendor to watch is Eucalyptus Systems. The company just released Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition, which lets users implement a cloud environment using existing network infrastructure without requiring modification.

The current edition creates a sort of proxy that makes internal virtualized environments appear to run just like Amazon Web Services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3). A single management console works will multiple hypervisors including Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX and ESXi.

The software lets users move applications freely between their local Eucalyptus cloud and AmazonAmazon's cloud. In the future, Eucalyptus plans to add support for other cloud platforms. Alles zu Amazon auf CIO.de