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New CEF Big Data Test Infrastructure release 1.3.0 has improved security and storage

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The European Commission is happy to announce a new release of the cloud-base data analytics platform offered by the Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) Building Block, which provides a safe environment to European Public Organisations to experiment with big data technologies. The Infrastructure is provided free-of-charge with the objective of fostering data analytic adoption around the EU and to promote data-driven decision-making.

This new v1.3.0. release of the test infrastructure adds new features to the platform regarding storage and security facilities. These additional features broaden the data analytics use cases that can be run on the BDTI platform by enabling Public Administrations to process more types of data and offering increased flexibility regarding the security and connection options.

Concretely, this release makes available a new type of database, MongoDB, for storing and processing unstructured data. This release also implements three new security features: centralised user management via Active Directory, Hadoop ecosystem enhanced with Kerberos and easier secure connectivity to user environments via OpenVPN connections.

More information about this release is available via the BDTI technical documentation.

If you represent a public Oorganisation interested in running a data analytics pilot project on the BDTI platform, feel free to learn more about the pilot request process in our Get Started page and contact us with any questions you might have.