Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.
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The elephant in the room
Plenty of news emerged form the Hadoop Summit this week,
including Cloudera announced support for Amazon Elastic Block Storage
(EBS) and introduced Sqoop, open source tool for importing
databases into Hadoop, while Yahoo! Released! The! Yahoo!
Distribution! Of! Hadoop! opening up its Hadoop developments to
the wider community. As Savio Rodrigues noted, there has been a
surge in the number of contributors for the Hadoop project in the
last year.
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