There are a few articles collecting dust in my feed reader from a period a couple months ago when I didn’t have much time staying up to date on what’s happening… here’s the rundown of the most important stuff about Hadoop.

• What Factors Justify the Use of Apache Hadoop?

Hadoop Appliances?

• Hardware for Hadoop
• Why you would want an appliance — and when you wouldn’t
• Some notes on Hadoop (mainly) and appliances
• EMC Puts Database & Hadoop in Same Big Data Analytics Box

Yahoo!’s Hortonworks Hadoop distribution

• Hadoop evolution
• Hortonworks Taking Hadoop to Next Level