Hadoop World 2011: Hadoop as a Service in Cloud

Understand some challenges of using Hadoop on a virtualization platform like: performance, rack awareness, job scheduling, memory over commitment, etc and propose some solutions.

Date: Wednesday, Nov 09 2011
Hadoop framework is often built on native environment with commodity hardware as its original design. However, with growing tendency of cloud computing, there is stronger requirement to build hadoop cluster on a public/private cloud in order for customers to benefit from virtualization and multi-tenancy. My speech want to introduce some challenges to provide hadoop service on virtualization platform like: performance, rack awareness, job scheduling, memory over commitment, etc and propose some solutions.