Introducing Alfredo, Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO for Java
What is Kerberos & SPNEGO? Kerberos is an authentication protocol that provides mutual authentication and single sign-on capabilities. SPNEGO is a plain text mechanism for negotiating...
View ArticleDistributed Flume Setup With an S3 Sink
This is a guest repost contributed by Eric Lubow, CTO at SimpleReach. It originally appeared here. I have recently spent a few days getting up to speed with Flume, Clouderas distributed log offering....
View ArticleStrategies for Exploiting Large-scale Data in the Federal Government
This is a guest post by Bob Gourley (@bobgourley), editor of CTOvision.com and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) CTO. Like enterprises everywhere, the federal government is challenged with...
View ArticleCDH3 Beta 4 Now Available
Cloudera is happy to announce the fourth beta release of Cloudera’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop version 3 — CDH3b4. As usual, we’d like to share a few highlights from this release. Since this will...
View ArticleAn Attendee Perspective On Chicago Data Summit
This is a guest post from Mike Segel, an attendee of Chicago Data Summit. Earlier this week, Cloudera hosted their first Chicago Data Summit. Im flattered that Cloudera asked me to write up a short...
View ArticleThe Only Full Lifecycle Management for Apache Hadoop: Introducing Cloudera...
Drew OBrien is a product marketing manager at Cloudera Were excited to share the news about the immediate availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and SCM Express, which we announced this week in...
View ArticleAutomatically Documenting Apache Hadoop Configuration
Ari Rabkin is a summer intern at Cloudera, working with the engineering team to help make Hadoop more usable and simpler to configure. The rest of the year, Ari is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. Hes...
View ArticleHadoop World 2011: A Glimpse of the Applications Track
The Hadoop World train is approaching the station! Remember to mark November 8th and 9th in your calendars for Hadoop World 2011 in New York City. The Hadoop World agenda is beginning to take shape....
View ArticleNominations Are Open for the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award
This post was contributed by Bob Gourley, editor, CTOvision.com. The missions and data of governments make the government sector one of particular importance for Big Data solutions. Federal, State and...
View ArticleApache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 has been released
Apache ZooKeeper release 3.4.0 is now available: it includes changes covering over 150 issues, 27 of which were considered blockers. ZooKeeper 3.3.3 clients are compatible with 3.4.0 servers, enabling...
View ArticleAn update on Apache Hadoop 1.0
Some users & customers have asked about the most recent release of Apache Hadoop, v1.0: whats in it, what it followed and what it preceded. To explain this we should start with some basics of how...
View ArticleApache Hadoop in 2011
2011 was a breakthrough year for Apache Hadoop as many more mainstream organizations large and small turned to Hadoop to manage and process Big Data, while enterprise software and hardware vendors have...
View ArticleApache Sqoop: Highlights of Sqoop 2
This blog was originally posted on the Apache Blog: https://blogs.apache.org/sqoop/entry/apache_sqoop_highlights_of_sqoop Apache Sqoop (incubating) was created to efficiently transfer bulk data between...
View ArticleApache HBase 0.92.0 has been released
Today the Apache HBase community has proudly released Apache HBase 0.92.0, a major new version of the scalable distributed data store inspired by Google’s BigTable. Over 670 issues were addressed, so...
View ArticleIntroducing CDH4
I’m pleased to inform our users and customers that Cloudera has released its 4th version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) into beta today. This release combines the input from...
View ArticleCloudera Manager | Service and Configuration Management Demo Videos
Service and Configuration Management (Part I & II) We’ve recently recorded a series of demo videos intended to highlight the extensive set of features and functions included with Cloudera Manager,...
View ArticleApache ZooKeeper 3.4.3 has been released
Apache ZooKeeper release 3.4.3 is now available. This is a bug fix release covering 18 issues, one of which was considered a blocker. ZooKeeper 3.4 is incorporated into CDH4 and now available in beta...
View ArticleMapReduce 2.0 in Apache Hadoop 0.23
In Building and Deploying MR2 we presented a brief introduction to MapReduce in Apache Hadoop 0.23 and focused on the steps to set up a single-node cluster. This blog provides developers with...
View ArticleAuthorization and Authentication In Hadoop
One of the more confusing topics in Hadoop is how authorization and authentication work in the system. The first and most important thing to recognize is the subtle, yet extremely important,...
View ArticleApache HBase 0.92.1 now available
What’s new? Apache HBase 0.92.1 is now available. This release is a marked improvement in system correctness, availability, and ease of use. It’s also backwards compatible with 0.92.0 — except for the...
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