Cloud Computing For The World's Excel Users

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Got Excel? Go Cloud in 2010

Your next steps are to Go Cloud and Go Parallel
By Bill McColl
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January 14, 2010 02:30 PM EST
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At the recent Hadoop World conference, Doug Cutting, Hadoop Project Founder, remarked that "The Dream" was to provide non-programmers with the power of parallel cloud computing tools such as MapReduce and Hadoop, via simple, easy-to-use spreadsheet-like interfaces.

With Cloudcel, the non-programmers of the world (and the programmers too!) can "live that dream" today.

Not only can you develop and launch massively parallel MapReduce/Hadoop-style cloud computations, simply and seamlessly from within the standard Excel interface, you can also go way beyond tools such as Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop, developing and launching live, continuous, realtime stream processing applications in the cloud, from that same Excel interface.

So if you already have Excel, and also have growing volumes of data you need to handle, your next steps in 2010 are to Go Cloud and Go Parallel.

You'll be surprised how easy it is to get started, and amazed by how powerful it is, as soon as you begin exploiting the elastic scalability of the cloud.

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Bill McColl is Founder & CEO, Cloudscale Inc. In order to found Cloudscale he left Oxford University, where for over twenty years he was Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Parallel Computing Research Center, and Chairman of the Computer Science Faculty. He has led research, product and business teams in a number of areas: massively parallel algorithms and architectures, parallel programming languages and tools, datacenter virtualization and resource management, realtime stream processing, and cloud computing. Cloudscale is his second Silicon Valley software company. He was also founder and CEO of Sychron Inc., a Silicon Valley VC-backed software company developing scalable software systems for datacenter and desktop virtualization. McColl lives in Palo Alto, CA.

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