Tag: governance
2018: A Big Data Year in Review
As 2018 comes to a close, it's worth taking some time to look back on the major events that occurred this year in the big data, data science, and AI space. There's a lot that occurred – and a lot that we chronicled in Read more…
Five Things to Consider as Strata Kicks Off
Today marks the start of the fall Strata Data Conference in New York City, which has traditionally been the big data community's biggest show of the year. It's been a wild ride for the big data crowd in 2018, one that's Read more…
How the Machine Learning Catalogs Stack Up
You can't do anything with data – let alone use it for machine learning – if you don't know where it is. In the age of big data, this is not a trivial matter. It is also the main driver that's propelling the rise of Read more…
Hortonworks Looks to Expand Hybrid Cloud Footprints
Organizations these days demand to run their big data workloads wherever and whenever they want – in their own private data centers, in public clouds, on the edge, and every which way in between. Hortonworks acknowledg Read more…
Danger and Difficulty Temper Data’s Huge Potential
It has been called the new oil, the new currency, the new religion. It is data, of course, and it's having a monumental impact on how we build business systems in the 21st century. However, for all the potential benefits Read more…
Behind on Preparing for GDPR? Three Things to Prioritize
The May 25, 2018 GDPR deadline is quickly approaching, requiring businesses to comply and prove compliance to the stringent new regulations or face potentially devastating financial penalties. Businesses that have not Read more…
The GDPR: An Artificial Intelligence Killer?
If anyone has doubts regarding the wave toward artificial intelligence, a quick read of this post from CMO.com should erase those doubts. Consider some highlights: In the immediate future, execs are looking for A Read more…
On the Radar: 14 Metadata Vendors To Watch Now
Before you can turn your big data set into something of tangible value through SQL analytics or machine learning, you need to get a firm handle on it. That is not always easy, and is often the crux of the big data proble Read more…
Fully Hydrate Your Lake in 8 Weeks or Less, Zaloni Says
Zaloni today rolled out Data Lake in a Box, a soup-to-nuts offering for getting a fully governed Hadoop cluster up and running in eight weeks or less. The offering includes Hadoop software, data management middleware, an Read more…
Big Data Fabrics Emerge to Ease Hadoop Pain
If Hadoop is leaving your data lake project all wet, you may be a good candidate for an emerging architectural concept called the big data fabric. As industry experts explain, big data fabrics bring a certain level of co Read more…
Getting to the Heart of Governance for Today’s Data-Driven Business
The phrase "big data" is probably the understatement of the century. Data today isn’t just big, it’s overwhelming. Studies show that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the past two years. If today your dat Read more…
Inside Dell EMC’s New Soup-to-Nuts Data Science Platform
Dell EMC today unveiled a new converged platform that combines the hardware and software data scientists need into a single package. By enabling data scientists to self-provision a set of cultivated Hadoop resources, the Read more…
Why Integration and Governance Are Critical for Data Lake Success
This is the final article in a three-part series exploring what it takes to build a data lake capable of meeting all the requirements of a truly enterprise-scale data management platform. While earlier installments focus Read more…
Veritas Disses Dell/EMC As It Preps Big Info Management Push
"What's worse than a lifetime of hardware with EMC?" Veritas' ad in the Wall Street Journal read today. "An eternity in Dell." With that one little dig, Veritas showed it's ready to play once again with the big boys in t Read more…
The Growing Menace of Data Hoarding
One of the downsides of living and working in a data-rich environment is the desire to squirrel away every last bit and byte for future use. Thanks to cheap storage systems such as Amazon S3 and Hadoop, it's technically Read more…
The Last Hadoop Data Management Tool You’ll Ever Buy?
The rise of big data has shaken up the data warehousing market, and one of the established vendors still looking to regain its footing is Informatica, which last year was taken private in a $5.3-billion leveraged buy-out Read more…
Trifacta Seeks Truce Between Data Wranglers and IT Chieftains
Trifacta today unveiled an updated version of its big data transformation software that should make it easier for data wranglers to adhere to the data management and security requirements of the corporate IT department. Read more…
Tackling the MDM Challenge of Big Streaming Data
Objectivity, an established Silicon Valley firm with experience in high-performance distributed object-oriented databases, today debuted a new Hadoop-based product that addresses one of the looming challenges in the Inte Read more…
Is Hadoop All Grown Up Now?
This week at the Hadoop-heavy Strata conference, we sat down with one of Cloudera's leaders to talk about how the platform they helped germinate is sprouting some enterprise-sturdy roots. With extensions to its Fortune 500 readiness from Intel and the other distro vendors, Cloudera says that there are a few... Read more…
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