Category: Expert Articles

“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...