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Cloud Misconfigurations Spur DB ‘Repatriation’

Cloud database misconfigurations are among the fastest growing sources of data breaches over the last five years, according to an annual survey of data breaches. Those security concerns are among the reasons more ente Read more…

Multi-Cloud Complexity Heightens Security Threats

The need to move data closer to users while gaining access to machine learning and other emerging technologies has prompted a broad shift by enterprises to multiple public clouds. But a new study finds that few early mul Read more…

Latest Bot Targets Hadoop Clusters

Hadoop clusters are under siege by a recently discovered malware threat designed to take over cloud-based servers as a platform for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks. The malware dubbed DemonBot was repo Read more…

AI, Machine Learning Among Top Cloud Workloads

More evidence is emerging of the inexorable shift of analytics and related workloads to the cloud, with adopters feeling more confident about hybrid infrastructure in their search for ways to become more agile, a new clo Read more…

Hiring Seen Rising Along With Automation

Despite growing worries among some U.S. workers about the deployment of automation and machine learning, a new survey finds that U.S. technology companies also plan to boost workforce hiring over the next three years. Read more…

Gartner: Role of Analytics in Security is Growing

As corporate and, more recently, university IT networks are bombarded with malicious code and other forms of cyber attacks, network managers are being forced to rely more heavily on a range of emerging security technolog Read more…

Azure Cloud Adds Hadoop Security

As Microsoft broadens its Azure cloud with new analytics capabilities and hardware to accelerate performance, another analytics partner has announced plans to add its big data security features to Hadoop deployments runn Read more…

The Week in Big Data Research

This week’s research brief brings news of cutting-edge work at global centers as teams try to keep refining Hadoop’s security, reliability and functionality—both on premise and in cloud environments. We also take a look at some interesting uses of MapReduce with projects that address image processing requirements—not to mention data integrity. Read more…

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