Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus

Without a doubt, the cloud and all its forms and meanings were big news in 2008. Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we saw Salesforce launch Force.com , a true platform-as-a-service. My picks for the most interesting software of 2008 are Hadoop and Eucalyptus. Hadoop is an Apache project, the "open source implementation of MapReduce, a powerful tool designed for the detailed analysis and transformation of very large data sets," which basically means you can process a ton of data on commodity hardware. Hadoop is going commercial through Cloudera and while details are not publicly available, let's just say there are some very important and interesting foundations being laid for the way that people deal with computing and processing power. ... Originally posted at Negative Approach (link)