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2018-06-20 Peter

Strap yourself in, here’s the news…

Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):

Cloudera have a bunch of new releases this week
- CDH is up to 5.15
- Cloudera Manager is also up to 5.15
- Cloudera Navigator is up to 2.14
- Cloudera Director is up to 2.8
- Cloudera Data Science Workbench is up to 1.4
Elasticsearch has hit 6.3, along with Elasticsearch Hadoop, with X-Pack now deprecated
Cloudbreak 2.7 is out, supporting Hortonworks new multi-cloud strategy
NiFi Registry is up to 0.2

Other technology news:

Hortonworks have announced HDP 3.0, due out Q3 2018 - announcement; Datanami; ZDNet; The Register
Azure Blob Storage now has immutable storage support and lifecycle management in public preview - link; link
Always interesting - from Datanami, with reference from Hortonworks - does open source make software more secure - link
Elastic, on how they do one click rolling upgrades with their Elastic Cloud - link
From ZDNet, an update on Teradata, and how restructuring their offerings and moving to the cloud is paying off - link
More from Hortonworks on Hadoop 3.1 - this time their experiences on running Hive LLAP as a YARN service - link
From The Morning Paper - a deep dive on Medea, a scheduler with optimisations for long running applications now built into YARN in Hadoop 3.1 - link
GridGain have announced GridGain cloud, based on Apache Ignite - link