To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company’s public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even start learning, experimenting and developing proof-of-concepts requires a lot of up-front investment in hardware, and it is also fairly complicated to download and configure, according to Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development. Skytap wants to address that with the introduction of its pre-configured templates, and allow enterprises…Read more at ComputerWorld
