Inside Analysis presents a Q&A with Varnish Software CTO Per Buer — the following ‘tale’ details exactly how the Varnish Cache open source project got started in 2005 with 37 downloads for its first beta version and evolved over ten years to have 2.2 million users worldwide. Inside Analysis: In the beginning, how did you become …Read More
Zen and the art of big data digital IoT transformation
The Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism was not established to guide a worthy few on the path to big data digital transformation, but it could have been. Given the complexity of Hadoop and the intricacies of building cross-functional globally connected data engineering teams, getting real business value to arise out of any firm’s new approach to …Read More
Is the future of security held in a single box?
We protect our homes with a single front door (generally speaking) don’t we? So should our approach to cyber security be any different? Shouldn’t we be able to look to one single security layer for protection? Given the proliferation and diversity of malware, viruses, hacks, phishing, online fraud, spying and data theft — shouldn’t we …Read More
Building intelligent muscles for ‘interactive analytics’
Information analytics used to be called ‘data mining’ in many circles. Although the term itself has almost been lost in the mists of the last bewildering decade or so of big data, we used to think of analytics as a far more static entity when we compare it to modern notions of data exploration. As …Read More
A ‘cultural shift’ to online backup
Everything will be on the cloud. It almost sounds like overstatement even in 2016 doesn’t it? Could we really get ourselves to the point where we regard the cloud layer as our first, primary, default and de facto location for data? The answer is: yes, we do already… although perhaps not all of us have …Read More