Category: Expert Articles

Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics

Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics by Dr. Christopher Burdorf, software engineer at NBC Universal. — December 11, 2014 The Spark cluster computing framework has an extensive machine library called Mllib which is...

Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015

Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015 by Rupert Brown, CTO Financial Services at  MarkLogic, December 5, 2014. A financial services company will suffer a major tier-1 system outage due to a failed Outsourced Database Schema...

Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data

Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data by Richard Self, University of Derby.–  26 November 2014. Various reports claim that the use of Big Data Analytics in health care can improve efficiency...

“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?”

“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?” by Wilco van Ginkel, *Security, November 22, 2014 As with any new trend, technology or ‘anything disruptive’, security becomes a key question. Unfortunately, most of the time,...

Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One

Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One by Merv Adrian, Research VP, Information Management, Gartner, Inc. |  October 31, 2014  | New York’s Javits Center is a cavernous triumph of form over function. Giant empty spaces...