Much buzz early this week on the launch of Cloudera, for its focus (distributed platform computing), its philosophy (best described as Not Google Or Anyone Else For That Matter, based on Hadoop, a Yahoo-driven open source competitor to Google’s MapReduce), and its team (from Yahoo, Oracle, Google….).
Very worth keeping an eye on.
Cloudera’s launch post. SEL’s coverage. NYT coverage.
Previous coverage of Hadoop and Doug Cutting on Searchblog.