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Big Data Security: Progress Is Made, But Is It Enough?

It's taken a few years and more than a few major data breaches, but it would appear the tide is finally beginning to turn when it comes to awareness of the importance of protecting data stored in analytical and transacti Read more…

Big Data Fabrics Emerge to Ease Hadoop Pain

If Hadoop is leaving your data lake project all wet, you may be a good candidate for an emerging architectural concept called the big data fabric. As industry experts explain, big data fabrics bring a certain level of co Read more…

Cybersecurity Grabs the Big Data Spotlight

For all the good that big data can bring your company, it also introduces certain risks. Thanks to a growing awareness about the importance of cybersecurity as a result of recent high-profile breaches, businesses will ha Read more…

5 Hadoop Trends to Watch in 2017

Hadoop is synonymous with big data, providing both storage and processing resources for large and disparate data sources—not to mention a platform for third-party software vendors to build upon. Where will the distribu Read more…

Getting to the Heart of Governance for Today’s Data-Driven Business

The phrase "big data" is probably the understatement of the century. Data today isn’t just big, it’s overwhelming. Studies show that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the past two years. If today your dat Read more…

Inside Dell EMC’s New Soup-to-Nuts Data Science Platform

Dell EMC today unveiled a new converged platform that combines the hardware and software data scientists need into a single package. By enabling data scientists to self-provision a set of cultivated Hadoop resources, the Read more…

Why Integration and Governance Are Critical for Data Lake Success

This is the final article in a three-part series exploring what it takes to build a data lake capable of meeting all the requirements of a truly enterprise-scale data management platform. While earlier installments focus Read more…

Get a Grip on Your Data Before GDPR Goes Live

We've been living the Wild West stage of big data the last few years, where data is flying all over the place and basically anything goes. Thanks to a new European law called the General Data Protection Regulation that g Read more…

Criminals Are Using Big Data Tech, And So Should You

If your company's big data collection fell into the wrong hands, it could be devastating. That's not news. But what you might not be aware of is the fact that cybercriminals are increasingly using advanced analytic tools Read more…

Container Specialist Tops Strata Startup List

A data lake startup whose platform utilizes Docker application containers to run an open source analytics engine is the winner of the startup showcase during this week's Strata + Hadoop World in New York. Pachyderm In Read more…

Splunk Doubles Down on Machine Learning Analytics

The application of machine learning to predictive analytics continues apace as a way to improve IT operations, data security and business intelligence. Among those offering frequent platform upgrades is real-time "operat Read more…

Delivering on the Data Lake Promise

The fundamental promise of a data lake is that it will give business users better access to the data they need - securely, accurately and without the long lead times traditionally associated with transforming that data i Read more…

Proliferation of Data Driving Machine Learning

Machine learning is a hot topic, but what applications is the technology driving and what drives machine learning? The short answer, concludes a new research report on machine learning, is data—lots of data. "Data i Read more…

How Big Data Improves Logging and Compliance

Compliance has never been easy. Organizations have to meet a myriad of external regulations, frameworks, and internal mandates such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, NERC, ISO and the EU Data Directive, many of which have a long lis Read more…

Super Scalable SIEMs Set to Tackle Big Security Challenges

The huge volume of network data that organizations need to chew through is putting pressure on security incident and event management (SIEM) software products that use a traditional rules-based approach. That's opening t Read more…

How to Securely Modernize Employee Access Management with Graph Databases

Even though 2013 was a distinguishing year for data breaches (think Target, the IRS and tens of millions of records stolen), according to a recent report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 2015 represented the Read more…

The Last Hadoop Data Management Tool You’ll Ever Buy?

The rise of big data has shaken up the data warehousing market, and one of the established vendors still looking to regain its footing is Informatica, which last year was taken private in a $5.3-billion leveraged buy-out Read more…

Cisco Eyes Better Analytics Through ‘DNA’

As the 800-pound gorilla in networking, Cisco already plays a major role in moving data around the globe. But with today's launch of its new Digital Network Architecture (DNA) strategy, the company has big plans to make Read more…

Pulling the Threads of Big Security Data

New software from Exabeam promises to help security researchers spot malicious users by "pulling the threads" of big security data and thereby uncovering patterns that otherwise would be difficult to discern. The new Read more…

BlueTalon Delivers Fine-Grain Protection of HDFS Data

BlueTalon today announced that its big data security software now supports the enforcement of fine-grained authorization policies and masking of HDFS data. This will enable customers to control access to Hadoop data usin Read more…

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