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Hadoop 2.x and its associated tools promise to deliver big data solutions not just to the IT-heavy big players, but to anyone with unstructured data and the need for multidimensional data analysis.

The revelation of wide-spread government snooping has sparked a renewed interest in data storage security via encryption. In this article, we review some options for encrypting files, directories, and filesystems on Linux.

With some simple tuning, SSHFS performance is comparable to NFS almost across the board. In an effort to get even more performance from SSHFS, we examine SSHFS-MUX, which allows you to combine directories from multiple servers into a single mountpoint.