Gazzang: Gazzang buy gives end-to-end encryption for Cloudera Hadoop

Cloudera will incorporate technology from its acquisition of encryption software provider Gazzang into Apache Hadoop so that industries with stringent security regulations can use the big-data processing platform.Gazzang's technology will permit Hadoop use by organizations that have legal requirements to encrypt data across the entire system, said Mike Olson, Cloudera chief strategy officer. Terms of the acquisition, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed.Regulations such as the U.S. health-care industry's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, retail's Payment Card Industry and Europe's Data Protection Directive, all require end-to-end encryption.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here