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In an effort to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of data security, authorization, auditing and overall governance for Hadoop, Hortonworks has acquired big data security specialist XA Secure. The vendor says it plans to donate XA Secure's inte
Concurrent says Cascading 3.0 will support local in-memory, Apache MapReduce and Apache Tez out of the gate with support for Apache Spark and Apache Storm soon to follow.
In keeping with the White House's digital government initiatives, senior government technologists increasingly look to a mobile-first strategy for developing digital content and services.
An estimated 1,500 developers gathered last week at F8, Facebook's first conference in almost three years, to learn about the latest updates to social network's platform. The atmosphere throughout the event was that of a very grown-up and i
Adobe Flash is still widely used, but it's seen as obsolete in the face of HTML5. In response, Adobe is taking several steps to adapt and contribute to a HTML5 future without browser plugins.
Marc Andreessen's 2011 proclamation that software is eating the world takes on new significance in light of IDC's prediction that mobile, cloud, social and big data technologies will disrupt firms in every industry. Companies that get this
Support for open source software is 'unbundled' from the software itself. That actually makes it much easier to get the right level of support at the right price.
Microsoft pays some companies to produce Windows 8 versions of their products. Without this type of financial assistance, or various other incentives, is Windows 8 and especially Windows Phone development worth the effort?
Story mapping offers a visualization of the steps, or stories, which make up a software development project. This conversation with several experts on the topic discusses how story mapping works, how maps are created and how stakeholders benefit from
With the release of the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1 version of its Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks is packing in new enterprise features, including data access, data governance, data management, security and operations.
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