Yahoo Tightens Up Hadoop for Security, Workflow Management

“Yahoo unveiled a new beta version of Hadoop, the open source,
distributed filesystem that the Web giant created and has used
internally for years to power its homepage and numerous other
online assets.

“The new version, announced here Tuesday at the Yahoo’s annual
Hadoop developer conference, integrates Kerberos open source
software, which the company said will enable more secure
collaboration and sharing of authenticated data.

“Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is also contributing its Oozie workflow
engine to the open source filesystem. Oozie, which is also open
source, manages workflows and data pipelines for many Hadoop jobs
at Yahoo.”

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