Using Hadoop for data on Google's cloud? Google would rather you didn't • The Register

Likely to be a very controversial move in the Hadoop community

"Google wants to shift heavy users of its cloud services away from an open-source, community-developed filesystem and into its own proprietary Colossus tech.
The upgrade was announced by the web overlord in a blog post on Tuesday that announced admins could now store Hadoop-destined data directly in Google's closed-sourced Colossus-based "Google Cloud Storage Service", and threw mud at the traditional Hadoop File System (HDFS) plugin."

Using Hadoop for data on Google's cloud? Google would rather you didn't • The Register