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Compliance Challenges and Big Data

Click here to learn more about author Ariel Amster. It’s been said that, “With great power comes great responsibility”. And when it comes to leveraging the power of Big Data, organizations have a responsibility to manage vast stores of sensitive data in order to meet strict compliance rules. But in light of ever growing regulations that govern […]

Hadoop Overview: A Big Data Toolkit

Big Data isn’t new. Forbes traces the origins back to the “information explosion” concept first identified in 1941. The challenge has been to develop practical methods for dealing with the 3Vs: Volume, Variety, and Velocity. Without tools to support and simplify the manipulation and analysis of large data sets, the ability to use that data […]

The Elephant in the Cloud, According to Ashish Thusoo

by Angela Guess Srini Penchikala recently wrote in InfoQ, “Ashish Thusoo, CEO and co-founder at Qubole, recently spoke at Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) about ‘The Elephant in the Cloud’, Hadoop as a Service offering. Part of a wider trend of big data as a service category rather than a product category, Hadoop as a […]

3 Best Practices for Utilizing Hadoop

by Angela Guess Scott Fleming and Paul Barsch of Teradata recently wrote in Forbes, “It makes sense to get excited about the possibilities afforded by Apache Hadoop YARN-based applications such as Spark, Storm, Presto and others to provide substantial business value. However, the actual tasks of managing and maintaining the environment should not get short […]

8 Big Data Trends to Watch For

by Angela Guess Tom Phelan, Chief Architect of BlueData, recently wrote in InsideBigData, “Over the next year, a growing number of customers will realize the vast business benefits of Big Data and will deploy Big Data solutions across their organization. Technical innovations, the rise of BDaaS, a shifting approach to data locality, platform convergence and […]

Webinar: SQL on Hadoop for Enterprise Analytics

To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar was sponsored by: About the Webinar Hear why SQL on Hadoop is the future of analytics. Mike Xu, Looker Data Architect and Evangelist will share how recent updates to SQL query engines like Spark and Presto are finally allowing companies to harness Hadoop’s processing […]