TC: “Cloudera is pushing a commercial distribution for Hadoop, a free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure and fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers processing enormous amounts of data, technology that’s being put to use by Internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, AOL, Baidu, The NY Times, Joost and many more.”

NYT: “A number of prominent computer scientists have hailed Hadoop as the right answer for an age when companies have moved from dealing with gigabytes of data to terabytes and now petabytes (one petabyte is equal to 1 million gigabytes or 1,000 terabytes). It’s one thing to store all of that information and another thing to be able to mine it in an efficient manner.”