Zettaset Orchestrator Enhances Open Source Big Data Security

Zettaset has expanded its Big Data security offerings with the announcement of support for Hortonworks and other open source Hadoop 2.x distributions in its Orchestrator management and security platform.

The support comes as part of the version 7 release of Orchestrator, which allows enterprises to manage Hadoop security policies and administrative tasks through a web interface. It provides Big Data security-hardening and availability features such as at-rest data encryption, centralized logging of user activity and automated failover for Hadoop services.

Orchestrator 7 is a distribution-agnostic platform that works with all open source Hadoop distributions, according to Zettaset. The company, however, is placing particular emphasis on the value enterprises can obtain by pairing Orchestrator with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.1, which together provide "the cost and scalability advantages of open source software and HDP's database expertise, while leveraging Zettaset Orchestrator's focus on security to harden and automate Hadoop production data center environments," according to Zettaset.

Zettaset CEO Jim Vogt added, "By deploying Orchestrator alongside HDP 2.1, organizations can achieve true enterprise-class data security that includes integrated encryption, access control, and policy enforcement as well as higher reliability and uninterrupted database uptime with our patented high-availability umbrella."

Orchestrator 7, which is backwards-compatible with 1.x Hadoop releases, is available now.