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At Hadoop Summit, Yahoo! Announces its Tested Distribution

At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. Hadoop, of course, is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now, as Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo, described in detail here.?


Digging Deeper Into Data With Hadoop

What?s next for Hadoop, the open source software framework that helps process very large data sets? We?re in the midst of a data-mining renaissance, and Hadoop is playing a leading role, writes Gay Orenstein on GigaOm. Hadoop recently helped the Yahoo! Developer Network set a new record in data sorting, and it is reaching other milestones. Check out the GigaOm story.

 



Hadoop-Centric Cloudera Gets $6 Million in Series B Funding

As GigaOm reports: Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif.-based start-up that is building commercial services around open source software framework Hadoop, has closed $6 million in Series B funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $11 million. The latest round of funding was led by Greylock Partners. Current investor Accel Partners also participated in this round. This is another sign that venture capital is flowing more freely toward open source now, and good news for Cloudera and its Red Hat-like business model.