That uncharacteristically overt operation raised a few eyebrows, although in fairness to the NSA it was not its first gift of technology to the open-source community. It had contributed the Accumulo ...

Hortonworks, a publicly traded company selling a commercial distribution of the Hadoop open-source big data software, announced today that it has acquired Onyara, an early-stage startup whose ...

Last month I wrote about Apache Ni-Fi, a project borne of (non-shady) work at the US National Security Agency, and now a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation. NiFi is all about building ...

Hortonwork Inc.’s latest acquisition is bound to make some waves in the industry. The purchase follows the same pattern as the previous two, a small startup that has been in operation for barely a few ...

Threat actors are scouring the internet for unprotected instances of Apache NiFi, to steal server credentials and install cryptominers, warns the SANS Institute. “An attacker for such a misconfigured ...

The code to integrate Apache NiFi with Apache Pulsar is now open source, Cloudera and StreamNative announced today. The integration could be a boon for companies looking to simplify the development of ...

Real-time stream processing isn’t a new concept, but it’s experiencing renewed interest from organizations tasked with finding ways to quickly process large volumes of streaming data. Luckily for you, ...