Thursday, April 23, 2009

Yahoo! Hadoop Tutorial

So I spent some time this morning learning about Hadoop, and why it is essential to Yahoo's cloud. The Y! Hadoop Tutorial got some rave reviews on Twitter, FYI.

Yahoo! Hadoop Tutorial

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Yahoo! Partners With Four Top Universities to Advance Cloud Computing Systems and Applications Research

University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Join Carnegie Mellon University to Take Advantage of Yahoo!'s Cloud Computing Resources

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr 09, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced it has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo!'s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Gone Fishin'

Thanks for stopping by. I will be on vacation Wednesday, 3/11 - Wed 3/18. 2009. Send me an email or tweet, and I will follow up as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Carmen

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Cloud Computing: Hadoop

Hadoop: Data Processing in the Cloud

Monday, March 2, 2009

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Slideshow of the Week

This was tremendously helpful to me. Granted, I am not an engineer. But perhaps you can share with your grandma, if she asks about what you do for a living.