As Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Instaclustr, Ben sets the technical direction for the company. Ben is located in our California office and is active in the Apache Cassandra community.
Prior to Instaclustr, Ben had been working as an independent consultant developing NoSQL solutions for enterprises and was running a high-tech cryptographic and cybersecurity formal testing laboratory at BAE Systems and Stratsec.
The Instaclustr Security team has evaluated a critical vulnerability impacting versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of XZ tools and libraries. These versions of the software may allow unauthorized access to affected systems. More detail can be found via this link: CVE-2024-3094. Instaclustr has analyzed and searched our fleet and found no vulnerable versions of xz-utils present….
In our first blog, “IoT Overdrive Part 1: Compute Cluster Running Apache Cassandra® and Apache Kafka®”, we explored the project’s inception and Version 1.0. Now, let’s dive into the evolution of the project via a walkthrough of Version 1.4 and our plans with Version 2.0. Some of our initial challenges that need to be addressed…
NetApp is pleased to announce the immediate general availability of Instaclustr for Apache ZooKeeper® 3.7.2 and 3.8.4 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This update is part of our ongoing commitment to provide our users with the latest and most efficient tools for managing their distributed systems, with both releases containing important security fixes. In the…
