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Microsoft Azure Looks to Secure ‘Data Estates’

Cloud giants continue to snap up data management and security startups as they add new capabilities aimed at enterprise customers in the midst of digital transitions. The latest example is Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Read more…

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…

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…

Algorithmia Voted the Top Startup at Fall Strata 2015

A company that runs what's been called a "dating site" for underappreciated algorithms took home the award for top startup today at the Strata + Hadoop World show in New York City. The companies Sense, Timbr, and BlueTal 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…

Snowflake Differentiates Itself in Strata Startup Showcase

Snowflake Computing, a big data warehousing as a service provider, took home top honors at the Startup Showcase event held during last week's Strata + Hadoop World conference. The award is a boost to the Silicon Valley c Read more…

Will Poor Data Security Handicap Hadoop?

Companies around the world are looking to Hadoop as a platform on which to perform big data analytics. Every day, petabytes of data are flowing into Hadoop clusters with the aim of giving them a competitive edge. However Read more…