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At the Hadoop Summit, Yahoo announces two key enhancements to the beta-level cloud computing platform: Hadoop with Security, and Oozie, a new workflow engine.
Yahoo, which is running 38,000 Apache Hadoop Web servers and counting among its hundreds of thousands of other servers, is quickly building quite an ecosystem for its heavy-lifting cloud computing software platform.
Hadoop, an open-source project created by Yahoo developers in 2005 that became an Apache project in late 2006, has engaged dozens of core developers, hundreds of contributors and thousands of interested IT folks since then.
At the summit, Yahoo announced two key enhancements to the beta-level platform: Hadoop with Security, and Oozie, a new workflow engine.
"Hadoop with Security is Hadoop integrated with Kerberos [authentication securityware], which amounts to a set of security updates that enable much stronger authentication," Blake Irving, Yahoo's new chief product officer, told summit attendees. "Hadoop with Security brings more secure collaboration and sharing of authenticated data."
Hadoop with Security also sets the stage for secure cloud computing multitenancy by providing authenticated secure access and processing of sensitive data, Irving said.
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