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More than 250 people attended a Hadoop developer event at Yahoo! this week, demonstrating again the level of interest the company has in open-source big data initiatives. Yahoo! says it is the world’s biggest Hadoop supporter. We say that’s undoubtedly correct. Yahoo! supports community developer events throughout the world. In February it supported the first Hadoop! event in India. In June, it will host the Hadoop Summit. Sponsor Yahoo! is not always recognized for its cloud computing efforts but its deep commitment to Hadoop shows how the company views the ways that big data can be used to solve major technology issues such as spam. Hadoop, according to Wikipedia , “is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data.” The developer conference featured discussions from the Hadoop community, including a presentation about using it to fight spam lead and a discussion led by a lead engineer from Facebook. Vishwanath Ramarao is director of anti-spam engineering for Yahoo! Mail. According to the Yahoo! developer blog, Vish described the intricate cat-and-mouse games played with spammers, and how Yahoo! uses Hadoop to abstract away the complexity of large scale data analysis and provide deep insight into spammer campaigns. Yahoo! Mail antispam – Bay area Hadoop user group Johhn Sichi, lead engineer for Facebook’s data infrastructure team provided an overview of Facebook’s work using Hadoop to manage data that is growing 8x annually, In March, 2008 traffic volume hit 200 GB per day. By the end of last year, traffic bumped to 12 terabytes per day. Hadoop, Hbase and Hive- Bay area Hadoop User Group Companies like Yahoo! and Facebook use Hadoop to organize data and process it from multiple sources. For instance, Facebook might use it to organize how it deploys its ad network. Yahoo! may be on to the most powerful use for cloud computing or at least the most interesting. And it shows how the company is thinking about cloud computing and the ways it applies to its overall strategy. Discuss
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The cloud fundamentally changes the way enterprise applications function. Increasingly we are seeing traditional enterprise applications emerge in the cloud and partner with other Web-based services that have consumer appeal. In turn, we are seeing cloud-based consumer type services transform into enterprise grade offerings that provide customers with the same experience they get in their work as they do at home. Sponsor IBM’s Lotus Note s is a clear example of how this symbiotic relationships is evolving. Yesterday, Tungle , the calendar application, released a Tungle.me app for Notes users. Tungle allows users to view other people’s calendards and availability. With Tungle.me for Lotus Notes, you can set custom availability and synchronize it with your Lotus Notes calendar. Once meetings are scheduled, they are automatically updated in the background. The news follows a number of applications that have been introduced for Notes users. Those include services like TripIt and Gist . Tripit is a travel planning service. Gist allows Lotus Notes users to add dynamic profiles for people in an inbox, calendar and contacts list. Gist for Notes allows a users to have news, blogs, and tweets all in one place, find related people, emails, links, and attachments. It connects to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Discuss
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The Nikkei Daily in Japan is reporting that Fujitsu will invest $537 million in cloud computing for 2011. That seems like a staggering investment to us but perhaps it’s not at all surprising considering the metamorphosis in the IT sector. According to The Nikkei and Reuters , the investments will be for more servers and external memory storage at data centers in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Australia and Singapore. Sponsor Fujitsu is not a name that is often thought of in terms of cloud computing. But it is one of the largest IT management services companies in the world, competing with the likes of companies such as CA and Microsoft, two providers with deep investments of their own in cloud computing. A little more insight into the investment came at the Symantec conference last week during an interview with Fujitsu CTO Dr. Joseph Reger. According to TechPulse 360, Reger said that relationships are developing, so to speak. “The IT industry and the cloud thing are in the dating stage… Dating is when you see only the bright side, the opportunities and you don’t sit down and worry about what could be the issues.” And like a lot of enterprise technology companies, Fujitsu is pushing for is own cloud stack for he enterprise: “It is a step away from current IT but it needs to be connected to the current IT: so private-public cloud. We’re thinking about trusted boundaries, the security perimeters and so on. And we are seriously hoping that the cloud will be just another incarnation of IT, not a total different thing. Meaning that there will be a cloud stack where everybody can contribute… Because if the cloud is like an end to end proprietary big heater proposition, that’s not good for us, for you [Symantec] and for our customers either.” Open standards, anyone? Discuss
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The debate about private clouds continue as the traditional heavyweight enterprise software providers make their big and glossy pitches for their vision of a private cloud. So, it may come from Google, but still, it is refreshing to hear the intellectual tone that a scholar like Vint Cerf provides. Cerf is Google’s chief technology evangelist but his reflections give a sound bearing on how private and public clouds do interact. Sponsor He spoke last week at the Google Atmosphere Conference. We came across one of the discussions he had with fellow Google innovators. He repeats what we hear him say a lot. It comes down to interoperability. Private clouds are tools. Google develops tools that are distributed on the Internet. The question is how do clouds interact? It’s a contrast to what we see with Microsoft or Oracle in its quest to sell cloud computing environments into the enterprise. In the meantime Amazon continues its own quest to dispel private cloud computing as a myth, not a reality. In an interview with eWeek , Adam Selipsky, vice president of AWS outlined their views: “….Moreover, Selipsky said what people are calling private clouds come with the following drawbacks, where the customer will: · Still own the capex…and they’re very expensive (big fixed investments) · Not pay for what you use · Not have true elasticity…when groups relinquish their servers, the company still owns the datacenter space and servers…and will also find that managing this supply chain will present a dilemma…will either have to significantly overprovision which is wasteful or become really expert at managing just-in-time supply-chain so there are no long waits for servers…managing a supply chain like this is really hard and takes a lot of effort and refining and keeping the status quo of long time to market is not so appealing either · Still own the headache of managing the undifferentiated heavy lifting” And so, the debate continues. Discuss
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Scanning the news the other day and what do we see but a reminder of the many acronyms in the cloud computing world. Again, it’s a vendor with a made up name. This time it’s Verizon with an update to its “Computing as a Service” or CaaS for short. Acronyms abound in the cloud computing world – perhaps more than any other technology in play today. They are emerging at a rapid clip. It’s understandable as cloud computing is so new and there are so many ways for it to be applied. But it’s also frustrating. Sponsor Verizon’s service looks solid. But the name creates more confusion. Get this: Verizon also offers “Everything as a Service.” That takes the cake, or should we say… muffin! It makes the whole concept of cloud computing a bit confusing as you try to understand what really is available. It becomes an issue of “what is it now?” This week’s other imaginative term – Virtualization as a Service – from Salesforce.com and VmWare. It’s the center issue for our Weekly Poll: What does Virtualization as a Service Really Mean? Dave Geada, vice president of marketing at StrataScale, had this to say about what it means: I think [new names are] a lot of unwarranted marketing hype (and that means something coming from a marketer). Knowing very little about the announcement, I would guess that the two are partnering in order to provide a platform where Force.com partners can deploy integrated solutions to a VMware enabled Salesforce cloud. In essence these providers would have a one-stop-shop for delivering their solutions to market instead of having to rely on an assortment of hosting partners to deploy their solutions. A joint platform initiative like the one I just described would also benefit enterprises who could host their own customized VM appliances on this cloud and easily integrate them with their Salesforce implementations and Force.com applications. In doing so VMware would be able to access a segment of the market where it’s been having some difficulties (i.e. SMB ISVs) and Salesforce would benefit from providing a more comprehensive solution to their partner ecosystem. If I’m right about this (and I reserve the right to be wrong), isn’t that a much more compelling story than the mumbo-jumbo we’re dealing with now? Cloud providers should demonstrate some more restraint in throwing the “cloud” label around and turn the conversation back around to the value that their providing to customers and partners. And high profile providers like Salesforce and VMware should be setting the example. We expect these ancronyms will filter out over time. Or perhaps VaaS and CaaS will stand the test of time. It’s just too early to tell. Until then, how about a muffin? Discuss
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