5 Steps for Securing Your Data In Hadoop
Data security remains a top concern for data professionals. To help organizations put up a best defense, Reiner Kappenberger, senior executive focused on big data and Hadoop at HPE Seecurity-Data Security offers five steps on how to best secure data ...
30 Coolest Big Data Business Analytics Vendors
Working with big data remains one of the biggest IT challenges that businesses, government agencies and other organizations face today. It's also one of the biggest opportunities for IT vendors and for solution and strategic service providers. The big data ...
How is fault tolerance handled in Spark streaming?
Spark Streaming components
Data model
All data is modeled as RDDs, built by design with lineage of deterministic operations, i.e. any re-computation always leads to the same result. Essentially the same process (however with a different mechanism) as in Hadoop's fault-tolerance for ...
How to perform capacity planning for a Hadoop cluster
The number of machines, and specs of the machines, depends on a few factors: the volume of data (obviously), the data retention policy (how much can you afford to keep before throwing away), the type of workload you have (data ...
Big Data: Managing Wild Weather and Water
By Gaalen Engen and Marc Davis
A state of emergency was declared throughout Washington State in November in response to a series of savage storms that caused three deaths and hundreds of injuries. So catastrophic was the cumulative damage that the ...
6 Essential Steps to Successfully Implement Hadoop
Interest in Hadoop continues to increase as business recognize the benefits it brings to their organizations and their big data analytics practices. Recent numbers bear this out as well.
According to a recent survey from TDWI, overall Hadoop adoption by enterprises ...
IoT And Big Data – The What, Why and What Next
Ok, you’ve heard the terms bandied about - Big Data and IoT. What’s the relation? We’ll tell you. Big Data has literally been the fuel on which Internet of Things (IoT) runs on. The tech sector is catching on fast, ...
5 Questions Enterprises Should Ask When Selecting a NoSQL Database
By Barry Perkins
With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases.
NoSQL databases enable better application development productivity, greater ability to scale dynamically ...
Hadoop update 2.7.0 Released
The Apache Hadoop community is happy to announce the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0! We want to express our gratitude to every contributor, reviewer and committer.
The Hadoop community fixed 923 JIRAs in total as part of the 2.7.0 release. Of ...
5 NoSQL Predictions for 2015
2014 has been another interesting year in Big Data with long-awaited IPOs, massive fund-raising and increased awareness around the data management market. So, what does this mean for the future of Enterprise NoSQL and the impact on enterprises across industries ...