Well, all depends, because many companies use Cloud Computing platforms like Amazon EMR. Vmware, Rackscpace Cloud for Hadoop hosting: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-mapr-hadoop-062013.html http://bitrefinery.com/services/hadoop-hosting http://www.joyent.com/products/compute-service/features/hadoop
There a lot of companies using HBase hosted in Cloud. The last HBaseCon was full of great use-cases: HBase at Pinterest: http://www.hbasecon.com/sessions/apache-hbase-operations-at-pinterest/ HBase at Groupon http://www.hbasecon.com/sessions/apache-hbase-at-groupon/ A great talk by Benoit for Networking design for HBase: http://www.hbasecon.com/sessions/scalable-network-designs-for-apache-hbase/ Using Coprocessors to Index Columns in an Elasticsearch Cluster http://www.hbasecon.com/sessions/using-coprocessors-to-index-columns/ 2013/8/8, Dhaval Shah <[email protected]>: > We are exploring the possibility of hosting Hadoop outside of our data > centers. I am aware that Hadoop in general isn't exactly designed to run on > virtual hardware. So a few questions: > 1. Are there any providers out there who would host Hadoop on dedicated > physical hardware? > 2. Has anyone had success hosting Hadoop on virtualized hardware where 100% > uptime and performance/stability are very important (we use HBase as a real > time database and it needs to be up all the time)? > > Thanks, > Dhaval -- Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda Product Manager at PDVSA http://about.me/marcosortiz
