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Understanding MapReduce and Hadoop (Video)

For those of you interested in just how cloud computing (and I do mean, computing) works, check out this video from a recent AWSome Atlanta Cloud Computing User's Group. Twitpay's Don Brown explains how open source applications MapReduce and Hadoop are used to process enormous amounts of data at Google and other large websites.

For more on MapReduce, check out these articles by Eugene Ciurana. For more on Hadoop (including support) check out Cloudera.

Via John M. Willis

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Originally posted at Negative Approach

March 11, 2009 7:59 AM PDT By Dave Rosenberg

Topics:

Open source,

Marketing,

Market Dynamics,

Disruptors,

Cloud computing

Tags:

Cloud Computing,

Hadoop,

MapReduce,

Cloudera,

John M. Willis,

Eugene Ciurana