I got 99 data stores and integrating them ain’t fun
                    Data integration may not sound as deliciously intriguing as AI or machine learning tidbits sprinkled on vanilla apps. Still, it is the bread and butter of many, the enabler of all things cool using data, and a premium use case for concepts underpinning AI.
Read More →Cloudera, Hortonworks, and how they are progressing in their Hadoop security agenda
                    Back in July 2014, Gigaom published a research note on Hadoop security written by me. As there seems to be rapid progress in this domain, in the last few days there have been a couple of related developments that call for an update on the picture drawn in that report. As was noted in the […]
Read More →The best approach to managing Hadoop
                    This week Linked Data Orchestration published another report on Big Data. The report is titled “The best approach to managing Hadoop” and is brought to you in collaboration with Gigaom and Zettaset. The report examines the 3 choices available for managing Hadoop and discusses the pros and cons for each one. Organizations leveraging on-premises Hadoop […]
Read More →Hadoop World vendor announcements and impact on Accessibility, Scalability and Security
                    This week the world’s biggest event for all things Hadoop takes place, the Strata and Hadoop World conference. Vendors announce and showcase new releases and features in their offerings, and Gigaom covered the extensive array of news. Let’s try to decipher them and see their impact in terms of Hadoop distributions Accessibility, Scalability and Security. […]
Read More →Big Data Security: What does it take and what are the strategies for implementing it?
                    Recently we referred to Hadoop security, taking a sneak peek at things to come and announcing an upcoming Gigaom report on the topic. Now the time has come and we are happy to announce that the “Hadoop security: Solutions emerge” Gigaom report has been published. But that’s not all, and in this post we give […]
Read More →Hadoop moving forward: a sneak peek at security & performance
                    As Hadoop is steadily making its way to the enterprise, the bar is raised in many ways. Since two of the most obvious requirements to be able to make it there are security and performance, i cherry-picked some related announcements made recently – shortly before and after Hadoop Summit, the biggest Hadoop event of the […]
Read More →Personal Data from the Source: How and Why Consumers and Marketers Can Connect
                    We saw in the previous posts a couple of examples of online marketing gone wrong. The common thread for these examples, and others like them, is the desire marketers have to reach out to new audiences – which is perfectly normal. But in many cases what they are doing is using a new medium – […]
Read More →Online Marketing and Data Protection: Dos, Don’ts, and a hint for a way forward
                    We have seen how marketing campaigns can backfire when common sense and CRM – MDM are missing from the mix. To err is human of course, so we should be forgiving both as IT professionals and as consumers, provided that we see tangible recognition of errors and a commitment to make amends. In this post, […]
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