Category: Expert Articles

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...

(The Need for) A Global Resource Manager for Data Analytics Clusters

(The Need for) A Global Resource Manager for Data Analytics Clusters by Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Researcher at Microsoft Research The necessity to process large quantities of data has led to widespread adoption of data parallel...