Who Loves Hadoop?

Who Loves Hadoop?

This article was very interesting to me considering my final paper topic is on enterprise mashups. Hadoop is an open source software framework, which has recently gained a great deal of popularity.

"Hadoop changes the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing because it's scalable, cost effective, flexible and fault tolerant," IBM says. It is unique because it has no schema, therefore it can absorb any type of data from any number of sources. As the article explained, "when a node goes down, the system redirects work to another instance where the data is stored."

Users of Hadoop include: Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, HP, IBM and Apple. The problem with Hadoop however, is that it is driven by enthusiasts, so the deciation in personnel, training and machine costs is very expensive. As Steve Wooledge, senior director of marketing at Teradata Aster explained, "when people say it is free, it is free like a puppy, it requires some care and feeding."

The solution would be to take Hadoop out of the FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) fold.

Maily: The App That Introduces Email to Your 4-Year-Old

http://mashable.com/2012/08/03/maily-email-4-year-old/

This ties in with what I covered in this week's discussion question regarding children's online privacy. I think a big issue is how the population being targeted keeps getting younger and younger starting with apps such as these. Children are exposed to so much on the internet at such a young age now, but they're also completely unaware of the repurcussions of their behavior/actions. This I believe will continue to become a much larger issue.