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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...