Is Hadoop developing too fast for its own good?29th March 2014Philip Howard Spark is the next big thing for Hadoop but is it too much too soon?
The role of the chief data officer18th February 2014Philip Howard What does the CDO do? What should he/she be doing? What is the relationship with governance, compliance and security?
NuoDB release 2.018th October 2013Philip Howard The 2nd version of NuoDB has just been released, but why would you be interested in NuoDB anyway?
Pentaho 5.0, a look at how they believe they are enabling the future of analytics18th September 2013David Norris Latest version of this popular open source BI tool examined
Kognitio: clarifying misunderstandings18th September 2013Philip Howard There aspects of Kognitio and its offering that are sometimes misunderstood, so I thought I should clear some things up.
Big data security29th August 2013Philip Howard The third issue for big data is ensuring that the data is secure and compliant. There are also ethical issues.
Big data context27th August 2013Philip Howard The second issue for big data is understanding the context of the data
Big data trust22nd August 2013Philip Howard The first issue for big data is how much you trust the data
Big data issues12th August 2013Philip Howard How you store big data is one thing - how you make sure it is suitable for analysis is something else
Calling a spade a spade17th June 2013Philip Howard Preventative maintenance and asset optimisation are not the same thing