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How to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation

Coming into force on May 25, 2018 is the long-awaited European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will change how businesses handle data on their customers and employees. In this ever-evolving world of data privacy, it’s important for companies to not only gain a strong understanding of GDPR, but understand where their data is located … continue reading

Alation and Paxata join forces, RightMesh opens application for network protocol SDK and more — SD Times New Digest: September 28, 2017

Alation and Paxata partner to provide consumers a better way to gather and analyze data Today, data management companies Alation and Paxata announced a new partnership aimed at providing simplification in establishing trust in data lakes. The partnership introduces a new “click-to-profile” data discovery feature where users can start discovering data using the Alation Data … continue reading

Strata + Hadoop World: MapR Edge, Zaloni Data Lake in a Box, and Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Hortonworks Hadoop

At the conference, MapR announced MapR Edge, a new solution to drive processing and analytics close to the edge. It captures, processes and analyzes data from Internet of Things devices and provides secure local processing, quick aggregation of insights, and the ability to push intelligence back to the edge. “Our customers have pioneered the use … continue reading

Hadoop Summit: Cascading 3.0, DgSecure 5.0 and MapR’s Azure integration

Data application infrastructure provider Concurrent has announced general availability of Cascading 3.0. The latest version of the enterprise Hadoop application development and deployment platform improves portability across programming languages such as Java, Scala and SQL, and across Hadoop distributions such as Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR. And it now has native support for compute fabrics like Apache … continue reading

Hadoop Summit roundup: MapR 5.0, HDP 2.3, Pentaho 5.4 and more Big Data news

MapR announced the release of MapR 5.0, along with new auto-provisioning templates for data lake deployment, interactive SQL data exploration, and operational analytics at Hadoop Summit. Version 5.0 of the MapR Hadoop distribution adds a new Views feature for the newly released Apache Drill 1.1 for agile data governance, and granular access controls for better … continue reading

Hadoop and beyond: A primer on Big Data for the little guy

Have you heard the news? A “data lake” overflowing with information about Hadoop and other tools, data science and more threatens to drown IT shops. What’s worse, some Big Data efforts may fail to stay afloat if they don’t prove their worth early on. “Here’s a credible angle on why Big Data could implode,” began … continue reading