The Apache Foundation Hadoop project is ushering in the era of tangeable parallel programming for the every-day developer. The project which was born out of the Nutch project created by Doug Cutting was taken over by Yahoo! who, along with Facebook and a few other firms, has helped the project mature over the past couple of years at a rediculous pace.
Shortly over a year ago an all-star cast got together to launch Cloudera with the purpose of commercializing Hadoop for the enterprise and beyond for a next gen, big data, business intelligence operating system. Its been a fast and furious first year for the Cloudera team as they have focused on educating the world why Hadoop is relevant and making it easy for folks to install and get started with the project. We had the pleasure of sitting down with co-founder Amr Awadallah to hear about Cloudera’s amazing first year and whets coming down the pipeline including their first major product release.
Today Cloudera is taking its next big step in announcing the release of Cloudera Desktop at the Hadoop World event in New York.
Having solved the initial install hurdles for developers Cloudera Desktop takes the natural next steps by providing a clean web based application that allows administrators to monitor and manage the complex system that is Hadoop as well as design data process jobs (map-reduce jobs) and upload/view files on the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Here is a screencast showing a brief overview:
To date Hadoop has been known for its use in the consumer web and advertising space to crunch log data, power analytics and trending analysis on the heaps of data generated each day. There are a lot of other uses and potential customers out there for Cloudera in many enterprise sectors. The main issue as Amr pointed out in our meeting is that this little bubble we live in called Silicon Valley allows us to easily learn about and adopt new technologies. Once you leave this area, let alone land inside some large enterprise group, you are usually a bit slower to learn about these things unless they show up in the latest Gartner magic quadrant report. Taking Hadoop on the road to NYC is a great step to lure CIO’s and CTO’s from all the big financial firms and other enterprises on the east coast.
Cloudera will no doubt continue its roll towards wildly successful future. They continue to add top notch talent, Hadoop creator Doug Cutting recently joined from Yahoo!. We look forward to tracking their progress to bring you the latest from the big data world.
Those interested can download Cloudera Desktop here.
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