by Angela Guess
A new article out of the company reports, “Hortonworks, Inc., a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms, today announced several key updates to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™). HDP allows customers to accumulate, analyze and act on information derived from data, and is 100% open source… For the first time, Apache Ranger for security and Apache Atlas for data governance are integrated to empower customers that define and implement dynamic classification-based security policies. In this technical preview, available now, enterprises can use Atlas to classify and assign metadata tags, which are then enforced through Ranger to enable various access policies. In addition, Atlas now provides cross-component lineage, delivering a more extensive view of data movement across multiple components.”
The article continues, “Cloudbreak allows enterprises to simplify and automate the provisioning of clusters in the cloud and fine tune their use of cloud resources. Cloudbreak 1.2 is available now. It expands support for OpenStack for private cloud and Windows Azure Storage Blob (WASB) for Microsoft Azure, and comes with the ability to run scripts either prior to or after cluster provisioning. The upcoming release of Apache Ambari features pre-built dashboards for HDFS, YARN, Hive, and HBase with key performance indicators for cluster health. The collective knowledge of Hortonworks’ support and engineering teams has captured nearly a decade’s worth of operational best practices in this release to help customers improve troubleshooting and speed time to resolution when issues occur.”
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