1. Accelerating Innovation with
Cloud Computing
Hari Vasudev
India Hadoop Summit - Bangalore
February 2010

2. I’m not selling anything

3. Cloud Computing is NOT
about saving money

5. Yahoo! is Perfect for Cloud Computing
PETABYTES
HUNDREDS
BILLIONS
600M
300M+
OFUNIQUE USERS DAILY
PROPERTIES /STORED
PETABYTES OF/ STORAGE
OF OBJECTS PRODUCTS
OF TRAFFIC MONTH
YAHOO! MAIL USERS / MONTH

6. Yahoo! Cloud Strategy
• Creating a private Cloud for Yahoo!
• Optimizing for global Yahoo! properties
• Data processing and serving environments
• Multi-year effort
• Open Source

7. Inside Yahoo!’s Cloud

8. Yahoo!’s Open Source for Cloud

9. Cloud Solving Industry-wide Problems
• Mail abuse detection
• Dependent on globally synchronized data
• Cloud storage
• Global data replication
• Consistency
• Fast and easy to use
• Developers focus on task at hand

10. • Organizational commitment
• Investment
• Time

11. Cloud Computing is worth it!

12. Yahoo!’s Cloud Use Case
Caching, Load Balancing
Search
Index
Machine
Learning Advertising
(e.g. Spam filters) Content Optimization
Optimization & Delivery
Attachment
Storage
RSS
Feeds
Image/Video
Storage &
Delivery

13. Cloud improves dynamic
content refresh rates and
consumer access speed

14. Cloud abstracts away scale
for processing enormous
data sets

15. Cloud speeds advertising
optimization by improving
infrastructure utilization
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16. Cloud Speeds Time To Market
• YQL
• SQL-like language
• Query, filter, and join data across
web services
• YQL Open Data Tables built
on Cloud storage
• Simple and fast integration and
deployment
• Immediate access to global,
replicated, fast, reliable data store
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