Modernizing Hadoop: Reaching the plateau of productivity

What's new in Hadoop, and how is vendor dynamics and strategy evolving?
Read More →Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe

The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and streamline sustainable development goals. While this is work in progress, there are some fundamental questions as to its effectiveness.
Read More →Conway’s Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR

Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data to using Blockchain and the effects of GDPR, would we rather stick to the devil we know?
Read More →Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?

How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is used? And do they get a cut out of the value generated by using that data? Let's take a walk on the wild side.
Read More →Here we go: The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 1, April 2018

Graph databases are the hottest thing around right now. Whether you are just getting started, or you are in one of the 51% of organizations already using them, this is the place to get your news and analysis. The popularity of graph databases has gone through the roof almost overnight it seems. Everything points this way: […]
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