With its roots in NSA intelligence gathering, Apache NiFi is about to play a big role in Internet of Things apps, says Hortonworks CTO Scott Gnau.

Threat actors are scouring the internet for unprotected instances of Apache NiFi, to steal server credentials and install cryptominers, warns the SANS Institute. "An attacker for such a ...

The code to integrate Apache NiFi with Apache Pulsar is now open source, Cloudera and StreamNative announced today. The integration could be a boon for companies looking to simplify the development of ...

Hortonworks is betting big on Apache NiFi, acquiring Onyara, the commercial entity behind it, and releasing DataFlow, a separate subscription alongside the Hadoop-based Hortonworks Data Platform.

NiFi was submitted to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in November 2014 as part of the NSA Technology Transfer Program.

Development on what is now known as Apache Nifi started in 2006 as a response to the spread of connected devices at the edge of the network and the wave of unstructured data that followed suite ...