Yahoo! India Research and Development has entered into
an agreement with Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, to support its
faculty and students in cloud computing research.
Yahoo
has set up a grid computing lab here on IIT campus, consisting of a
cluster of high-end servers running its open source Hadoop software,
which will provide the infrastructure necessary to conduct research on
big data and cloud computing systems.
“This
partnership is beneficial to both of us. Our Indian product offerings
generate over 200 terabytes of data every week. The big data research
that will be performed at this lab can help us in analysing this data,
which in turn, can be used to improve our various products – such as
Yahoo front page,” said Hari Vasudev, Vice-President, Yahoo! Inc. For complete story read here