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Nov 17 2007   1:23PM GMT

Overheard: What’s inside IBM’s Blue Cloud



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cloud computing, MapReduce, Hadoop, IBM, Google
erick-schonfeld.jpg “Blue Cloud is based on an open-source project called Hadoop that manages computing resources across large clusters of computers. Hadoop includes an open-source version of MapReduce, the same software Google uses to efficiently distribute its computing chores across its servers around the world.”

Erick Schonfeld, IBM’s Blue Cloud is Web Computing By Another Name