It’s Time to Ditch Scarcity Thinking
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” Smaug the magnificent dragon sits on his nearly unlimited hoard of treasure and coins and…
Emerging Cloud Technologies
The cloud is an ever-changing infrastructure that is continuously being applied to different facets of life in order to provide…
Big Data Is Nothing Without Its Little Brother
We sometimes get so caught up in the hype of big data – the huge, fast moving, complex and diverse…
Is Cloud Computing Secure for Financial Services Industry?
My recent article for Seeking Alpha predicts a significant uptick in cloud adoption in financial services, thanks My recent article…
How To Maximize Performance and Scalability Within Your Hadoop Architecture
In its infancy, Apache Hadoop primarily supported the functions of search engines. Today, it is used throughout dozens of industries…
Collaboration in the Cloud: The Continuity Advantage
Real-time communication doesn’t always seem quite fast enough, not in an economy where the most successful businesses have to not…
Architecting Big Data Solutions
In this article I would like to outline, at a high level, the overall thought process for "architecting" big data…
How Microsoft is Protecting the Privacy of its Customers from the NSA
Over the past year, the spotlight has been on the NSA and its spying techniques. It seems like we're getting…
6 Simple Steps to a Big Data Strategy
We now live in a world in which the volumes of data are exploding by the second. While some companies…
3 Big Hadoop Myths Dispelled
As with any new technological innovation, a lot of myths have been generated about Hadoop. At Strata + Hadoop World,…
