Learn for Free How to Deploy Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure

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Categories: Altus CDH Cloud Ops and DevOps Training

At Cloudera, we spend our time helping customers benefit from data. We help them with different types of data—structured, semi-structured, or raw unstructured. We also help them implement solutions for storing, tracing, securing, processing, enriching, analyzing, and visualizing it.

Over the past several years, we’ve observed that customers are increasingly working with their data in the cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is a popular deployment option. Cloudera University is pleased to announce a free course,

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Proactive Data Pipeline Alerting with Pulse

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Categories: CDH Events Guest Search

In mid-2017, we were working with one of the world’s largest healthcare companies to put a new data application into production. The customer had grown through acquisition and in order to maintain compliance with the FDA, they needed to aggregate data in real-time from dozens of different divisions of the company. The consumers of this application, of course, did not care how we built the data pipeline. However, they cared greatly that if it broke,

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Protecting Hadoop Clusters From Malware Attacks

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Categories: Altus CDH Platform Security & Cybersecurity

Two new strains of malware–XBash and DemonBot–are targeting Apache Hadoop servers for Bitcoin mining and DDOS purposes. This malware is scanning the internet so vigorously for Hadoop clusters that an infection can occur within minutes of an insecure cluster being placed on the open internet. This blog post describes the mechanism this malware uses and offers specific actions to protect your Hadoop-based clusters.

A History of Hadoop Malware

Roughly two years ago there were a spate of attacks against the open source database solution MongoDB,

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New in Cloudera Enterprise 6: Apache Hive 2.1

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Categories: CDH Hive

We recently released Cloudera Enterprise 6.0 featuring significant improvements across a number of core components. In this blog post, we’re going to focus on Apache Hive 2.1.

Hive’s Approach to Rebase: Stability and Quality Most Important

Prior to the release of Cloudera Enterprise 6.0, Cloudera’s supported platform included Apache Hive 1.1 augmented with numerous features, enhancements and fixes from the later Apache Hive releases—all of which were included only after rigorous quality criteria were met.

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Network Security with Cloudera Altus and Apache Spot

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Categories: Altus Platform Security & Cybersecurity

Introduction

In the last few years, IT security threats to enterprise systems have increased, which has necessitated installing log ingestion and analysis solutions in any enterprise network.

This blog post illustrates how Cloudera built its own scalable solution for log ingestion and analytics using Apache Spot and Cloudera Altus. By leveraging transient workloads in the cloud, Cloudera reduced the solution’s operational costs by 50% when compared to traditional, persistent cluster approaches.

Use Case

At Cloudera,

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