Conservative IT executive....Sounds like your working at my last job. :) Yahoo uses hadoop. For a very large cluster. http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/
And afterall hadoop is a work alike of the Google File System, google uses that for all types of satelite data, The new york times is using hadoop http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/hadoop/ Raskpsace a big hosting provider users hadoop too http://highscalability.com/how-rackspace-now-uses-mapreduce-and-hadoop-query-terabytes-data So hadoop is a fact. My advice for convincing IT executives. Ask them to present their alternative. (usually its nothing) On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Robert Krüger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to make the case for using Hadoop (or more precisely > HDFS) as part of a storage architecture for a large media asset repository. > HDFS will be used for storing up to total of 1 PB of high-resolution video > (average file size will be > 1GB). We think HDFS is a perfect match for > these requirements but have to convince a rather conservative IT executive > who is worried about > > - Hadoop not being mature enough (reference customers or case studies for > similiar projects, e.g. TV stations running their video archives using HDFS > would probably help) > - Hadoop knowledge being not widely available should our customer choose to > change their hosting partner or systems integrator (a list of > consulting/hosting firms having Hadoop expertise would help) > > Thanks in advance for any pointers which help me make the case. > > Robert > > > > >
