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Big Data and Security: Analytics as a Way to Improve IT Security

By Dick Weisinger

On a near daily basis we learn of data breaches where sensitive data has been compromised. “We are being overwhelmed by all the opportunities for attack,” says Art Coviello, Executive Chairman of RSA. Existing intrusion protection tools have been found

Big Data: Despite Difficulty in Getting Started, Organizations See Great Value

By Dick Weisinger

While there has been much hype about Big Data, a report by Gartner finds that less than 8 percent of 720 organizations that they track globally have actually taken their big data projects beyond just planning or discussion stages. Similarly,

High Performance Computing: Companies use Big Computers to Process Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Supercomputers — computers with pricetags of more than $500,000 — are being deployed at a healthy pace. Businesses are investing in these fast computers in an effort to spark innovation. A recent report by IDC in high performance computing (HPC)

Big Data: Interacting with Hadoop 2 Data Using Standard ANSI SQL

By Dick Weisinger

Cascading is an Apache-licensed application framework  for building rich data processing and machine learning applications that run on Hadoop.  Cascading applications are built using a simple API that can be called from any JVM-based language.  Over the past five years, it has

Big Data: Using the Best Tool for the Job

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly, big data management is being handled by a variety of tools, a sort of ‘polyglot‘ or ‘hybrid data ecosystem‘ approach. Rather than being restricted to using a single tool like Hadoop, a hybrid data ecosystem uses tool sets from