Yahoo India research and development Team has signed an agreement with Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) , Bombay under which yahoo India has provided IIT -B students and its faculty access to cluster of its servers which are using running the open-source Hadoop software.

Apache Hadoop is open source software of Apache Foundation and mainly supported by Yahoo. According to Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president and head of Yahoo Labs,Yahoo is Using Hadoop for most of its critical operations and it is not feasible to do all research with in the company. This agreement with IITB would help to continue Hadoop Research more effectively.

The Cluster lab at Mumbai would help students and researchers at IITB to study more about the cloud computing and real time web data. Yahoo had launched the program of deploying servers at various universities in Last June and IIT Bombay , is among the first three universities outside US which are the part of this Program.

According to Raghavan, Servers with hundreds of processors and capability to handle terabytes of data are already deployed at IIT Bombay and the servers are in operation right now.

The partnering of Yahoo with Academic institutions on Hadoop is helping Yahoo to create a pool of engineers who are familiar with Hadoop. According to Raghavan, Yahoo has hired many engineers from these institutions. He also said that Yahoo has also benefited from the ideas number of times given by the academic institutions doing research on Hadoop Platform

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