Security is a living organism–people will want to deal with a data leakage. What’s interesting is the way we are going to do it. We won’t have to have secure and non-secure clusters because we can co-mingle secure and non-secure access on the same nod and cluster, which is key. Efficient access to the data is how people want to build networks across flash, SAN, disk, etc. They want to take that data and put it in the most efficient place based on usage.

On the security performance front, [Zettaset is] shipping V5 now that introduces a couple important things: more control and active directory. We set a policy on the clusters to control who’s doing what, which is the key to compliance. What people are interested in next is: how can I encrypt data in nodes and in storage? That’s the piece we’re working on next.

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Hadoop security wasn’t ready for the enterprise

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The main issues were in the open source ecosystem itself. The enterprise needed higher availability and security, visibility, control, management and performance. Many were comfortable playing with Hadoop internally but not deploying.

Our vision starting out was looking 10 years out — despite the efforts of the community, it takes too long to meet the necessary requirements. Although Cloudera and others have options, they didn’t have much for long term. And that was one major difference at Strata this year — you saw a lot of the major vendors like EMC and Intel support Hadoop.

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Security: strength in numbers

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Another part of our security strategy is in partnerships. We are teaming with IBM and Intel. We have had a different view of the market because our background is in open source and enterprise.

Intel does a few things for us. Look at the spread of partners they’ve gotten to support their distros. For us, we can reach those partners.

Secondly, they put out in the wire that they’re supporting Rhino. This creates a filibuster between Hortonworks and Cloudera that supports a lot of the things we’re reaching for. Whatever we do in product form with the community we already have in production. We view it as a positive thing — commercial and community leverage we can take advantage of.  ~As told by Amber Harris

Editor’s note: Vogt, a Strata regular, has also been a guest on theCube.   Below we’ve included a clip from Vogt’s Cube visit from a Strata event last year.  A worthy watch indeed.