Collaborate Disseminate
Cloudera was once one of the hottest Hadoop startups, but over time the shine has come off that market, and today it went private as KKR and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a pair of private equity firms announced they intended to purchase Cloudera for $5.3 billion. The company has a market cap of around $3.7 […] Continue reading Cloudera to go private as KKR & CD&R grab it for $5.3B
If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where every company was suddenly concerned about processing huge amounts of data. The future was bright, an open […] Continue reading With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times
Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the biggest players in the Hadoop big data space, today announced that they have finalized their all-stock merger. The new company will use the Cloudera brand and will continue to trade under the CLDR symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. “Today, we start an exciting new chapter for Cloudera […] Continue reading Cloudera and Hortonworks finalize their merger
In order to stop sophisticated modern threats, organizations need to be flexible and scalable with the way they handle their data. Network flows and data need to be collected and examined at cloud scale in order to let defenders identify anomalous behavior, but getting to that stage is a heavy lift. Henry Sowell, Technical Director for Hortonworks spoke with CyberScoop on how open source systems allow for that flexibility and scalability, especially at a time where the onslaught of threats has never been greater. “This is one of the major benefits of the open source – collaboration,” Sowell said. “If we don’t have the answer, we have the partners that do. This results in solutions that are more effective, more secure and are of a higher quality.” Sowell says on top of keeping up with threats, open source systems also allow agencies to craft a first-rate way to share intelligence. “You […]
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Data growth never stops and the sheer volume and variety of this data has challenged organizations to makes sense of it all. Over the last few years, these groups have been turning to big data solutions to extract valuable insights and actionable intelligence from these massive new sets of data. Now organizations are beginning to leverage this same technology to modernize and reinforce their cybersecurity posture. In a discussion with FedScoop TV, Henry Sowell, Technical Director of Hortonworks Public Sector, commented on legacy approaches to detecting and addressing cyber anomalies. Many organizations rely on systems that are hampered by their inability to store and analyze large amounts of traffic their networks are generating. Sowell commented on these restrictions, “It’s not effective for today’s cyber landscape, especially when you’re considering that I need to be able to understand the patterns – the activity – that’s occurring on my network. These things […]
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