Yes, this is a perfect fit for offering analytics as a service, folks can call it A3S .... :-)
See this reference post: http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/01/14/it-infrastructure-capability-as-a-service/ ... where I also mention Mahout. Yours sincerely, Tim www.thecepblog.com www.unix.com On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > At Veoh, I was using 10 machines that were roughly equivalent to the small > instances at amazon to crunch really large amounts of data. > > Giving up on in-memory computation was a huge win for me. > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think it will be interesting to try as a proof of concept. It's a >> solution that still doesn't scale to huge data sets, but I think a >> 15GB machine would still work for large-ish data sets (~100M ratings) >> and its exactly those small- to medium-sized applications for which it >> might make sense to outsource this. >> > > > > -- > Ted Dunning, CTO > DeepDyve > 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 220 > Menlo Park, CA 94025 > www.deepdyve.com > 650-324-0110, ext. 738 > 858-414-0013 (m) >
