During the O’Reilly Strata Conference, Dave Vellante led a discussion on security with the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Sqrrl, Ely Kahn, and the Chief Technology Officer at Wikibon, David Floyer. While both guests stopped by theCube to discuss security, Kahn also discussed Sqrrl’s growth and progress with the Accumulo project over the last year.

Dave opened the discussion by reminding us that the focus of the young company Sqrrl is the security, scalability and performance of NoSQL. Kahn stated that since their introduction on theCube a year ago, Sqrrl has since released the  first version of their product, and has begun installing it in both government and big commercial companies.

Kahn states that Sqrrl is really bringing something new to the table, explaining that Accumulo had been developed by the NSA in 2008 and had remained a classified project until becoming open-source in 2011. Therefore, Accumulo is still a relatively unknown face in the security market, in addition to being the only NoSQL database option where security was built in from the ground up.

On current affairs, Floyer discusses his take Intel’s recent announcement on their plans to help add cell-level security to Hbase. He states that Intel’s serious commitment to security is a very good thing, but they have a long way to go to even put in the first levels of security, and cell-level security is , in actuality, a long-term goal. He describes how their first big step will be to really understand what is required at the chip level and be able to bring that to the application level and the operating systems.

In any case, both Kahn and Floyer’s discussions assure us there are big upcoming developments in the world of security.

See Kahn full segment below, and find more great interviews and exclusive content from Strata 2013 here.