Cloudera's first major acquisition

Hadoop vendor Cloudera has just acquired a start-up Gazzang that specializes in cryptography for next-generation data storage environments, but details of the deal are not disclosed. This is Cloudera's first major acquisition.

Gazzang was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Austin. Gazzang provides block-level encryption, which includes a data encryption product and access rights Management product in the Hadoop environment. The latter can control access to data access authorization protocols such as key values, tokens, and so on.

For Cloudera, who is the backbone of the enterprise data Center, with Gazzang security technology support, it can undoubtedly improve their customers ' confidence in environmental security.

In addition to supporting the Hadoop environment, Gazzang encryption technology supports the next generation of data storage environments such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase, Amazon elastic, and so on.

Gazzang previously received 9.6 million dollars in financing. After being acquired, Gazzang's headquarters will become the Security research center known as Cloudera Center for Secure Excellence.

Less than one months ago, Cloudera's rival, Hortonworks, bought another security start-up, Xa secure, reflecting the importance of security to improving the deployment of Hadoop technology.