Yahoo! to host Apache Hadoop India Summit 2011

BANGALORE, INDIA: Yahoo! India R&D has announced the second edition of Apache Hadoop India Summit 2011.

The day-long event aims to provide the Indian cloud computing community with a chance to hear speakers from leading Internet and technology companies and technology institutes, said a press release.

Hadoop is the open source technology at the epicenter of big data and cloud computing, helping companies get value from their data and better manage their businesses.

According to the release, Yahoo!’s application of cloud computing technologies and Hadoop has played a pivotal role in enabling Yahoo! to personalize its content and advertising offerings to deliver relevant customer experiences and maintaining the trust of its 600 million users.

Hari Vasudev, vice president, Cloud Platform Group, Yahoo! India R&D said: “Yahoo! Initially used Hadoop for projects within Yahoo! Labs and has since built it into a robust platform used across our business to develop increasingly personalized consumer and advertising experiences at a global scale."

"As a largest contributor to the Apache Hadoop project, Yahoo! considers it important to bring the community together to discuss best practices, trends and innovations,” added Vasudev.

Participants at the Apache Hadoop India Summit 2011 will get an opportunity to hear and learn from experts working on Apache Hadoop and will also discuss large scale distributed computing across verticals.

Todd Papaioannou, chief architect of cloud computing at Yahoo! and vice president of cloud architecture will give the keynote address at the event.