Promise of Open Cloud Grows with Access to Second Open Source Project from Yahoo!
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, took its
second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing
today, debuting an open source version of Traffic Server, a high
performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic
Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration
management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing
stack. It follows the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop as another example
of Yahoo!'s unprecedented commitment to open source cloud computing
initiatives. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server code to The Apache
Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator, and intends to build a
robust community of developers around the open source Traffic Server.
Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, will
be discussing the new technology tomorrow at the Cloud
Computing Expo.
"We see Traffic Server as an essential building block for cloud
computing, and at Yahoo!, it's integral to our edge services, on-line
storage and cloud serving. The open-sourcing of Traffic Server is
representative of our company-wide commitment to sharing technology
innovation with the open source community, as well as our broader
intention to continue to open source our cloud technologies as they
mature," said Shugar. "By releasing an open source version of Traffic
Server, we are sharing a core piece of technology with the open-source
world, while also signaling our intention to build a community of
developers to take it to the next level."
Open-Source Traffic Server
With the open source version of Traffic Server, organizations can
benefit from fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online
content. In addition, Traffic Server enables speeded responses to
requests for stored Web objects, such as files, news articles or images,
reducing bandwidth usage and costs.
The low-latency, extensible framework of Traffic Server makes it ideal
for delivering Web traffic at high rates, and its "plug-in" architecture
makes it customizable to fit different system needs.
Yahoo!'s release of Traffic Server represents more than eight years of
active use and quality engineering in a product that currently serves
more than 30 billion Web objects a day across the Yahoo! network. The
company's global network of data centers allows Traffic Server to choose
the closest servers to store and access cached content for increased
speed. Traffic Server is widely deployed at Yahoo!, capable of handling
more than 30,000 requests per second per server and it currently serves
more than 400 terabytes of data per day.
Yahoo! is also announcing an update to the Yahoo!
Distribution of Hadoop, now deployed extensively in Yahoo! data
centers worldwide. Since the initial Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop was
announced in June 2009, Yahoo! has published multiple updates to the
code. These include new features and bug fixes that continue to improve
robustness, security, performance, and operability of Hadoop for ongoing
large scale deployments.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its
innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one
of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online
media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online
lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet
experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more
information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com
or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com).
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SOURCE: Yahoo!
Yahoo! Corporate Communications
Karen Mahon, 408-349-4152
karenm@yahoo-inc.com
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