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Today Yahoo will release security and workflow products for Hadoop to the open-source community.

The products to be donated have been built internally at Yahoo and are designed to provide the enterprise with more incentives to use Hadoop for distributed data storage. The products will be donated to the Apache Foundation as part of the events at the Hadoop Summit, taking place today at Yahoo corporate headquarters.

Puppet Labs, the commercial sponsor of the open source server configuration framework Puppet, announced today that Adobe has agreed to publish their Puppet modules for managing Hadoop. The code will be freely available for download via the Puppet Forge.

Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework that provides system administrators with a platform that allows for consistent and flexible systems management.

Cloudera is working with Quest Software to provide a connector into Oracle for Hadoop, the open-source, distrbuted data management platform.

The connector, called "Ora-Oop," provides a way to transfer data between Oracle and Hadoop. The service will be available in the fourth quarter for download through Cloudera and Quest.

Is there a way to defeat spam? Late last week, the Yahoo Mail team shared news from an independent study that users of the Yahoo Mail receive significantly less spam messages in their email inbox than other competitive services.

We caught up with Vish Ramarao, anti-spam guru at Yahoo, to learn how the company was able to achieve these results and whether it is possible to outsmart spammers using more capable filters.

Hadoop is gaining more commercial acceptance. We see a number of signs of its growing popularity. It became abundantly clear in a recent conversation we had with a Yahoo! executive who says the company is rebuilding its future on the distributed warehousing and analytics technology.

It's a similar track we are seeing with the larger consumer social networks and cloud computing providers. Facebook uses Hadoop to do deep social analytics which powers the ability to provide its established level of personal interaction. Windows Azure is adopting Hadoop.

Yahoo! says it is the world's biggest Hadoop supporter. We say that's undoubtedly correct. Yahoo! supports community developer events throughout the world. In February it supported the first Hadoop! event in India. In June, it will host the Hadoop Summit.

This week's poll is inspired our friends at CloudAve. Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post today about open-sourcing data center design.

It's about time, isn't it? Subramanian best point comes down to what is happening right now in the cloud computing world. The enthusiasm for cloud computing is such that there is no time to waste.

CloudCamp Tour India will feature five CloudCamp events over the next eight days, illustrating the the growth of the movement in one of the largest technology communities in the world.

India is on the edge of seeing significant adoption for cloud computing. Janakiram MSV works with Alcatel Lucent as Deputy General Manager, Bell Labs-India. He makes a few points about why India is poised for significant growth in his post about the battle ahead in the cloud computing market.

Earlier this morning the Internet was buzzing with news first reported by The New York Times Bits blog: Doug Cutting was leaving Yahoo. In specific, he was leaving Yahoo for Cloudera, a small startup.

Cutting was one of Yahoo's best and brightest, especially in the area of search and software infrastructure. He got to work on the largest installation of his wildly successful software Hadoop, an open source solution for dealing with huge data sets. Both Yahoo and Cloudera use Hadoop, so the work is the same on the most basic level. Why would he leave to join a 20-person team at a young company?

Amazon announced today that it is bridging two of its web computing services, EC2 and S3, with Hadoop, an open-source project that brings the same distributed data processing power as Google's MapReduce. In fact, it is calling the new service Amazon Elastic MapReduce. The new service will allow its EC2 customers to perform distributed MapReduce queries on enormous datasets stored in S3, paying only for the computation time they need.