“Tucked within the computer science deparment at the University of California, Berkeley, there’s an institution called AMPLab that’s making a name for itself by — among other things — essentially rebuilding the Hadoop platform, only faster.”  — Derrick Harris, GigaOm

GigaOm posted a nice overview article describing AMPLab and some of our projects including some of the newest such as Tachyon and MLBase.