Big Data Applications – anyone out there?

Big Data Applications – anyone out there? If you read my post last week we discussed how Big Data and Hadoop is no longer running on commodity hardware. This is a good thing, provided you are prepared to accept the higher Hardware cost, because it lays the...

Big Data Appliances – good or bad?

Big Data Appliances – good or bad? We saw in the last week that Teradata has updated their Big Data Appliance it can now ship with Cloudera and has had Hortonworks available for some time. http://ht.ly/PFrgV Although Appliances are appealing for simplicity, ease...

The Internet of Things and Big Data

The Internet of Things & Big Data We are seeing increasing interest from a number of clients in IoT. While it’s still more of a hype phrase than reality there are a number of Organizations that can point to real success with IoT and Big Data. One of them is...

Big Data and Security – still a problem?

Big Data and Security – still a problem? When we talk to clients about Big Data it’s often assumed that there is a strong security infrastructure in place to secure all that data either at rest or in motion. While that assumption is starting to be true...