Tag: Security

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Welcome to our fourth edition of “This Month in the Ecosystem,” a digest of highlights from October 2013 (never intended to be comprehensive; for completeness, see Hadoop Weekly). For generating sheer excitement, that month installed a high bar to meet in the future: Hadoop 2 Became Stable with the 2.2 (“GA”) ReleaseThe idea that this news could be done justice in a few sentences strains credulity. (Furthermore, it has been covered elsewhere widely and thoroughly at this point.) Suffice to say here that this release will transform the Big Data ecosystem ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Sandy Ryza. Cloudera Manager lets you add a YARN service in the same way you would add any other Cloudera Manager-managed service. In Apache Hadoop 2, YARN and MapReduce 2 (MR2) are long-needed upgrades for scheduling, resource management, and execution in Hadoop. At their core, the improvements separate cluster resource management capabilities from MapReduce-specific logic. They enable Hadoop to share resources dynamically between MapReduce and other parallel processing frameworks, such as Cloudera Impala; allow more sensible and finer-grained resource configuration for better cluster utilization; and permit Hadoop to scale to accommodate more and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: karan-sachdeva; The latest executive report published by IBM Institute for Business Value puts the estimated cost of cyber crime to the global economy in a range of USD 375–575 billion per year. Reputational damage, which is hard to calculate, comes on top of all this. No industry and geography has remained untouched with recent spurt of cyber attacks. Most companies have cyber security systems in place with some Fortune 500 and government agencies having highly advanced sophisticated systems in place. The difficulty is, not many have constructed living, dynamic and vibrant ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Josh Zelonis. Ransomware protection best practicesStrategies for preventing ransomware, or recovering from it if you become a victim. Download report On July 25, we’re going to start sending out detailed questionnaires to vendors who qualify for our upcoming report entitled, Vendor Landscape: Endpoint Detection & Response, 2017. This report will be a collaboration between Chris Sherman and myself with an expected publication date in September. We will be approaching a product category that is about 5 years old, and to date, has suffered from two major challenges: 1) confusion with next-gen endpoint capabilities, and 2) ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Connect is now certified as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. Amazon Connect is a simple to use, self-service, cloud-based contact center offering you can use to deliver more engaging customer service experiences. Now you can use Amazon Connect when you need to store, process or transmit cardholder data as part of customer service.   ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon WorkSpaces is now HIPAA-eligible and is PCI compliant. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can start using Amazon WorkSpaces to deploy HIPAA-compliant cloud desktops that access Protected Health Information (PHI). With PCI compliance, Amazon WorkSpaces has been verified to conform to Payment Card Industry Security Standards and can now be used to utilize applications and files that contain sensitive Card Holder Data (CHD). For more information about HIPAA-eligible and PCI compliant services on AWS, see AWS Service in Scope by Compliance Program. If you don’t have an executed BAA with AWS, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.Oracle:Protecting Financial Data with Oracle WebCenter and Adobe LiveCycleOracle Forms 12c oracle.security.jps.JpsException Error after Database changeThe Future of Content Management: Oracle Content & Experience CloudToday Oracle released a very large „monster“ Upgrade. This July 2017 Update includes the first time the new RU „Release Upgrade“ and RUR „Release Update Revision“ Patches.Cloud Ward: Who Will Win the Battle for IT’s Future?SQL Server:SQL Server Management Studio add-insResolve Network Binding Order Warning in failover clusterQueries to inventory your SQL Server Agent JobsSQL Server 2016 ColumnStore Index String ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. When we first looked into the possibility of building a cloud-based data warehouse many years ago, we were struck by the fact that our customers were storing ever-increasing amounts of data, and yet only a small fraction of that data ever made it into a data warehouse or Hadoop system for analysis. We saw that this wasn’t just a cloud-specific anomaly. It was also true in the broader industry, where the growth rate of the enterprise storage market segment greatly surpassed that of the data warehousing market segment.We dubbed this the “dark data” problem. Our ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Below please find our regularly scheduled quarterly update about where to find tech talks by Cloudera employees this year – this time, for October through December 2013. Note that this list will be continually curated during the period; complete logistical information may not be available yet. As always, we’re standing by to assist your meetup by providing speakers, sponsorships, and schwag! Date City Venue Speaker(s) Oct. 1 Aarhus, Denmark GOTO Aarhus Eva Andreeason on Hadoop use cases Oct. 8 Sunnyvale, Calif. Hadoop Happy Hour Kathleen Ting and Jarek Cecho sign books! ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Welcome to our third edition of “This Month in the Ecosystem,” a digest of highlights from September 2013 (never intended to be comprehensive; for completeness, see Hadoop Weekly). Note: there were a few other interesting developments this week, but out of respect for the calendar, I’ll address them next month. New Ecosystem Projects Joined the Apache IncubatorA trio of Hadoop-related projects were accepted into the Apache Incubator, including Storm (for real-time event processing – contributed by Nathan Marz and championed by Doug Cutting), Samza (for processing of data streamed from publish-subscribe ... Read More