Features

Data Catalogs Emerge as Strategic Requirement for Data Lakes

If the exhibitors at last week's Strata + Hadoop World expo are any indication of what's happening down on the street, data cataloging is evolving from a nice-to-have into a necessity for organizations looking to capital Read more…

What Does the VC Investment Slowdown Mean for Big Data?

The overall pace of investments by venture capitalists slowed over the first six months of the year, according to new report issued last week. While the software industry as a whole did well, the number of investments in Read more…

Data Management and Governance in the Data Lake

Lifting the Fog of Spark Adoption

Clients are often confused about Apache Spark, and this confusion sometimes hinders its adoption. The confusion is not about the features of Spark per se, but about installing and running the big data framework. One c Read more…

Big Data, Big Misnomer

Outside of the data warehouse profession, the phrase “Big Data” is still widely misunderstood. Even Google is confused: a Google search for “define ‘big data’” returns the definition: “extremely large data Read more…

Hadoop Security: Still a Lot of Work to Do

Hadoop is quickly gaining momentum as the foundation for a new class of massively parallel applications that works against petabytes of data. But as customers grow their test clusters beyond a handful of nodes, and with Read more…