At a recent EPIC Champions of Freedom privacy event, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook finger-wagged some of his Silicon Valley neighbors—without mentioning names Facebook and Google—on how they…

Last month, I ran an informal poll and asked the question: Which statement most closely represents your response to: "Is privacy dead?" Here are the options I…

The recent data lake debate with my colleague, Anne Buff, may be over, but the discussion in many organizations is just getting started. What we learned during…

If you answered “yes” to the question posed in the title, you’re right. Because if you’re talking about the open source Apache Hadoop project (and any related…

In April, I was given the opportunity to present An Executive’s Cheat Sheet on Hadoop, the Enterprise Data Warehouse and the Data Lake at the SAS Global…

While there’s no question that the buzz of “big data” is still going strong, how well is big data actually catching on? To answer this question, we’ll…

Okay, this is where the rubber meets the road. I have three minutes (or ~450 words) to respond to Anne’s final statement and summarize why I still…

In keeping with the spirit of this Lincoln-Douglas debate format, it looks like I only have 4 minutes (or approximately 600 words) to rebut the anti-data lake…

As to be expected, Anne, your arguments against building a data lake are both persuasive and passionate. You’ve made some great points, my friend, but you’re making…

To data lake or not to data lake? That is the question du jour, precipitated by the big data tsunami that hit our enterprise shores a few…