Hadoop

May 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

Hortonworks Data Platform with Cisco UCS; and a note on incredible performance of Hive 13

2 min read

Undoubtedly Big Data is becoming an integral part of enterprise IT ecosystem across major industry verticals, and Apache Hadoop is emerging almost synonymous with it as the as the foundation of the next generation data management platform. Sometimes referred to as Data Lake this platform serves as the primary landing zone for data from across a wide […]

May 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

How Data Virtualization Helps Data Scientists

2 min read

By now it is clear that big data analytics opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, a shortage of data scientists is creating a bottleneck as organizations move from early big data experiments into larger scale adoption. This constraint limits big data analytics and the positive […]

April 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco, Cloudera and The Future of Data Management – on Display at Cloudera Sessions

1 min read

  The Cloudera Sessions Roadshow helps companies to navigate the Big Data journey.  As Hadoop takes the data management market by storm, organizations are evolving the role it plays in the modern data center. This disruptive technology is quickly transforming an industry, the value it adds to the modern data center, and how you can […]

April 17, 2014

DATA CENTER

Bring Your Own Service: Why It Needs to be on InfoSec’s Radar

4 min read

Security concerns around cloud adoption can keep many IT and business leaders up at night. This blog series examines how organizations can take control of their cloud strategies. The first blog of this series discussing the role of data security in the cloud can be found here. The second blog of this series highlighting drivers […]

March 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Maximizing Big Data Performance and Scalability with MapR and Cisco UCS

3 min read

Huge amounts of information are flooding companies every second, which has led to an increased focus on big data and the ability to capture and analyze this sea of information. Enterprises are turning to big data and Apache Hadoop in order to improve business performance and provide a competitive advantage. But to unlock business value […]

March 4, 2014

SECURITY

Big Data Ecosystem Challenges

4 min read

Information security is one of the largest business problems facing organisations. Log data generated from networks and computer systems can be aggregated, stored, and analysed to identify where misuse occurs. The enormous amount of data involved in these analyses is beyond the capability of traditional systems and requires a new, big data approach. Given the […]

December 12, 2013

SECURITY

Big Data in Security – Part IV: Email Auto Rule Scoring on Hadoop

6 min read

Following part three of our Big Data in Security series on graph analytics, I’m joined by expert data scientists Dazhuo Li and Jisheng Wang to talk about their work in developing an intelligent anti-spam solution using modern machine learning approaches on Hadoop. What is ARS and what problem is it trying to solve? Dazhuo: From a high-level view, Auto […]

December 10, 2013

SECURITY

Big Data in Security – Part II: The AMPLab Stack

7 min read

Following part one of our Big Data in Security series on TRAC tools, I caught up with talented data scientist Mahdi Namazifar to discuss TRAC’s work with the Berkeley AMPLab Big Data stack. Researchers at University of California, Berkeley AMPLab built this open source Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS), starting at the bottom what is Mesos? AMPLab is looking at […]