The Open Source Cloud is Ready for Hadoop, Projects Say
October 16, 2012
Grazed from Linux.com. Author: Libby Clark.
Two major trends in enterprise computing this year show increasing overlap: big data processing and open source cloud adoption. To Hortonworks, the software company behind open source Apache Hadoop, the connection makes sense. Enterprise customers want the ability to spin up a cluster on demand and quickly process massive amounts of data, said Jim Walker, director of product marketing at Hortonworks, in an interview at OSCON in July. The cloud provides this kind of access by its ability to scale and handle computing tasks elastically.
The open source cloud offers the additional benefit of low-cost deployment and extra plugability you won’t get with a proprietary cloud infrastructure. All three major open source IaaS platforms — OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus — have made much progress this year in testing Hadoop deployments on their stacks. And Eucalyptus is working on full integration with the platform…
Although no formal relationship exists between Hadoop and the open source IaaS platforms now, Hortonworks does see potential for collaboration given the nature of cloud computing, in general, Walker said. “(Hadoop) could be a piece of any open cloud platform today,” he said. Here’s what each of the three major platforms had to say recently about their progress with Hadoop on the open cloud…
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