Hacking Hadoop is a surprisingly simple process - possible with freely downloadable software - due to the open source data analytics framework's propensity to be distributed with no security features.

"We want to help data-driven enterprises who use data as a critical part of their business to use Hadoop," Dunn said. The Apache Hadoop ... Hadoop is often tied with cloud technologies for ...

At Computing's Big Data & Analytics Summit earlier this month, Demeter Sztanko, a data architect at global dating site Badoo, suggested that companies who implement Hadoop had to ensure they have ...