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The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for its openness and willingness to share. That’s not what it does, essentially -- and of course not why it exists. That being said, it appears ...

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 ...

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 ...

The open source Hadoop distribution vendor aims to bring together streaming analytics and rich historical analytics with the acquisition of the key contributor to the Apache NiFi project and the ...

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 ...

Apache NiFi is an integrated data logistics and simple event processing platform.It provides an end-to-end platform that can collect, curate, analyze and act on data in real-time, on-premise, or in ...