From the Canyon Edge: bigdata

Friday, September 14, 2012

Gazzang Secures Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop, MongoDB

Earlier this week, Gazzang and Cloudera publicly announced an official partnership, providing the Big Data industry with a first-of-its-kind offering ... a commercially supported encrypted Hadoop distribution! Check out that spiffy Gazzang logo right there in the mix with our esteemed friends at Ubuntu and PuppetLabs!

We have certified Gazzang's eCryptfs-based transparent filesystem encryption solution, zNcrypt, running under the Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH), protecting all of the data at rest.

We at Gazzang are really quite proud of this milestone and our unique opportunity to really help secure enterprises leveraging Big Data.

It quite nicely aligns with our partnership with 10gen as well, where we have also certified zNcrypt protecting MongoDB NOSQL data as well. Once again, we feel we're in quite good company with our colleagues at Canonical and Red Hat, working with 10gen.

Here's to building an ecosystem around security and privacy of this next generation of applications leveraging NOSQL and Big Data!

:-Dustin

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

I'm thrilled to see Gazzang's next big thang is now out of the gate...

We announced today our comprehensive, turnkey encryption platform for Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, and several other cloud workloads. Our encryption technology is built on top of eCryptfs and transparently encrypts data, protecting sensitive data at rest without requiring modifications to your applications, partitioning, or filesystems.

We've tested our Gazzang Encryption Platform for Big Data against Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, and MongoDB, on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10, with both OpenJDK and Sun Java.

The news hit a good handful of tech news outlets today. Enjoy!

Gazzang Launches Big Data Encryption and Key Management Platform
Hadoop Users Could Get Their First Taste of Real Encryption
And a growing list of subtle clones...

:-Dustin

About the Author

Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Gazzang Secures Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop, MongoDB

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Gazzang the Thang: Big Data

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