Cloudera Not Cutting It With Big Data Security Cloudera is, for the moment, a dominating presence in the open source Hadoop landscape; but does it have staying power? While Cloudera’s Big Data platform is the darling of the Hadoop space, they and their open source distribution competitors have so far failed to adequately address the elephant in the room: enterprise data security. Cloudera’s Chief Architect and creator of Hadoop, Doug Cutting, recently discussed the growing value of Big Data in a CNBC Squawk Box segment, but nervously glossed over the subject of data security when it was raised. Benzinga reported Cutting as
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Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: Elastoffice …Emancipate Office Administration and Filing Work on C9 Cloud, Says ElastOffice Elastoffice(EO) launched its business operations in mid-2011 in Hungary, but had already conceptualized and made feasible business commitments towards this realization half a decade before. This qualifies the startup as one of the European Rising Stars in a cloud startup sense. It also qualified for the recent prestigious EuroCloud award ceremony at the heart of Europe. The company specializes in office administration software solutions, using the Cloud C9 as the business and data storage reservoir. It also leverages on day-to-day office paper
The Rise And Fall Of The Zmanda Empire There are two kinds of online businesses: those that grow to buy other businesses or those that grow in order to be offered as tasty morsels to the first class of businesses. And until somebody buys them out or they become as titanic as Microsoft you cannot know which is which. Zmanda was founded in 2006 and is one of the companies that are a part of the second category. It was a cloud backup software company and it was recently bought by Carbonite, although the terms of the deal are not
3 Security Principles To Keep Your Cloud Information Secure The increased security risk of having your files and programs on someone else’s server is one of the main reasons why so few people and businesses are making the move to cloud computing. And while hackers serve an essential role of showing programmers the fragile spots in their security systems, it is never a good feeling when they do so by accessing your data. Still, truth be told, many times hackers do not need to crack the security systems of cloud servers,—those are very well protected and have a team of
Autodesk Cloud Offering To Slash Simulation Cost, Startups Rejoice In a move aimed to strengthen its cloud computing solution product line, Autodesk has recently revealed the latest in its cloud based simulation offerings. Called the Autodesk Simulation 360, the tool set provides a diverse suite of online core-engineering analysis software based on a pay-as-you-go billing mechanism. The product mounts on top of prior cloud initiatives like the Autodesk PLM 360, a collection of collaborative cloud based subroutines for quality enhancement, product introduction, conformity management and expense control. Other significant players belonging to Autodesk’s cloud computing arsenal are Project Cumulus and
Discover How to Bring Trust to the Cloud: Strong Authentication for SaaS Applications However, the same exact benefits of the SaaS delivery model that are driving the trend may actually slow down further adoption of the SaaS applications by the enterprises. Why do IT departments get skeptical about moving their mission-critical applications and data into the cloud? The answer is quite simple; security concerns are increasingly cited among the reasons for slower adoption of SaaS. As a SaaS provider, you very well know that offering services in the cloud can be both rewarding and challenging at the same time. You
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