Google Compute Engine breaks Hadoop Terasort World Record

While I've been light on posts as of recent, I though I'd share a cool result that Google Cloud and MapR accomplished together.

This has been the result of a lot of performance analysis, tuning, and much more but nothing is specialized.  You get this experience without any effort - just boot virtual machines and go.

Here is a press release on the accomplishment:
http://insights.wired.com/video/mapr-google-compute-engine-set-new-world-record-for-hadoop-teraso

The Cloud is powerful.

   Enjoy,
      Tony

PS.  My Google Cloud Security, Performance and Test team is hiring :)