VMware Announces Open Source Project To Enable Apache Hadoop Run On The Cloud

VMware, Inc., the global virtualisation and cloud infrastructure provider, has announced a new open source project, Serengeti, to enable enterprises to quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments.  In addition, VMware is working with the Apache Hadoop community to contribute extensions that will make key components “virtualisation-aware” to support elastic scaling and further improve Hadoop performance in virtual environments.

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