As information projects charge forward to keep up with user demand, the presence of information security is looming stronger than ever. While there is still the desire by development to push forward unabated, more scrutiny than ever has been placed on projects to identify security risks and address them. Often an afterthought of the past, …Read More
Methods to Secure Data in the Cloud
The Cloud offers many companies opportunities to differentiate and innovate with their IT systems and applications at a much more rapid pace than ever before possible. Cloud storage costs less, enables more rapid server deployment and application development, and offers scalability. The Cloud has been a disruptive technology that many companies have leveraged to maintain …Read More
Scale Out with a Managed Data Lake
Many organizations are feeling the bulge of vastly expanding data volumes and the constriction of being hemmed in by an inadequate storage environment. We are also experiencing ever-increasing complexity in our operational system environments with some analysts estimating many companies having between 5,000 and 10,000 individual sources of data. This cramped space leaves users with …Read More
Turning Hadoop Into an Analytics Platform
Companies are loading massive amounts of data into their Hadoop clusters. They fully expect to leverage this data for insights and decision-making through analytics, but how? The key is to move Hadoop beyond just a large-scale storage system and turn it into a high-performing analytics platform. The first step in turning Hadoop into an analytic …Read More
Data Virtualization: The Perpetual Short-Term Solution
One of the premises of my book, Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data, is that information will, by necessity, be spread throughout the organization into heterogeneous data stores. While the allocation of data to a platform should be ideal for the majority of its usage, obviously the selection can never be perfect …Read More