That a 3 year old will christen the biggest thing to have come out of the valley in the last 5 years is a fantastic story (that I will not do justice to…and hence will not repeat…but if you get to meet Doug Cutting…ask him…he is proud of it and you can see why).
The fact that it will be the biggest thing in the next 50, makes the genesis of it even more remarkable.
Hadoop has FOREVER, wrested the award for the most creative name for any Apache project (or non-apache project). The fact that this data crusher is open source, used by the biggest web properties not called Google, likes running on cheap commodity hardware and actually delivers the promise of being able to crank a $100TB for commercial use makes it a force of nature to be dismissed at your own peril.
There has been so much written about all things HADOOP, all I will do here is point you to the right resources to go figure it out yourself - click here. I will say that having deployed a life-sized Hadoop cluster, everything you have heard about it doing, it can do.
Boys will always be boys, and for now the special bond they had with the cuddly elephants (as a kid…hopefully) has been immortalized …and if you missed having that plush toy…never to late to get one….they are cute!!
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