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 ...

Apache NiFi is an easy-to-use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. Download this book, by experts at Attunity and Hortonworks, to learn how NiFi collects, curates, analyzes, ...

Threat actors are scouring the internet for unprotected instances of Apache NiFi, to steal server credentials and install cryptominers, warns the SANS Institute. “An attacker for such a misconfigured ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for ...

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 code to integrate Apache NiFi with Apache Pulsar is now open source, Cloudera and StreamNative announced today. The integration could be a boon for companies looking to simplify the development of ...

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 ...