To better utilize cloud computing resources, an interesting proposal involves using the available machines for distributed computing in an ad-hoc manner during regular and off-peak hours. Our proposed ...

Cloud Platforms: Many cloud platforms offer managed Spark services such as: AWS EMR Elastic Map Reduce: A fully managed service that simplifies running big data frameworks like Spark. Google Cloud ...

It has gone out of fashion, both in terms of hype and because its foundational technology – Apache Hadoop – was surpassed by cloud-based blob storage such as AWS S3. However, a sister project born in ...

Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.

Hadoop’s open-source framework and its ability to run on commodity hardware made big data analytics more accessible to a wider range of organizations. Since Hadoop was first released in 2006, cloud ...

From rootkits to cryptomining. In the attack chain against Hadoop, the attackers first exploit the misconfiguration to create a new application on the cluster and allocate computing resources to it.

A new report released today by researchers at cloud-native security company Aqua Security Software Ltd. warns of a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications.The attack is describe ...

The distributed computing experts at WANdisco think they have the right solution with Edge to Cloud, an IoT data activation system they announced the launch of this week. Edge to Cloud leverages cloud ...