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by Angela Guess Google has published a paper on its project, Spanner. According to the abstract, “Spanner is Google’s scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions. This paper describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying...
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by Angela Guess Cade Metz of Wired reports that Google’s Dremel takes Big Data to a new level. Metz writes, “Mike Olson runs a company that specializes in the world’s hottest software. He’s the CEO of Cloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source software platform based on tech that turned...
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by Angela Guess The World Economic Forum has posted a new paper titled Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development. The paper is available for download here. According to the abstract, “The amount of data in the world is exploding – large portion of this comes from the interactions over mobile devices...
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by Angela Guess Sunil Soares of IBM Business Magazine recently laid out a framework for Big Data Governance. He writes, “Big data governance is part of a broader information governance program that formulates policy relating to the optimization, privacy, and monetization of big data by aligning the objectives of multiple functions. However, big data...
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by Angela Guess Scribe Software has published a new report entitled The State of Customer Data Integration in 2012. According to the announcement, “In February 2012, Scribe Software surveyed 300 business leaders and channel partners to uncover opportunities and challenges associated with customer data integration. The State of Customer Data Integration in 2012 report...
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by Angela Guess Ilya Katsov recently posted an in depth analysis of NoSQL data modeling techniques. Katsov begins, “First, we should note that SQL and relational model in general were designed a long time ago to interact with the end user. This user-oriented nature had vast implications: (1) End user is often interested in...
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by Angela Guess Larry Hardesty reports, “There are a host of mathematical tools for finding possible relationships among data, but most of them require some prior knowledge about what those relationships might be. The problem becomes much harder if you start with a blank slate, and harder still if the datasets are large. But...
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by Angela Guess A new paper out of Neo Technology examines uses of NoSQL in the Enterprise. According to the description, “Business are struggling to cope with the explosion of data known as ‘Big Data’, growing at an estimated 40% per year. These businesses now turn to NOSQL, as traditional relational databases are proving...
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by Angela Guess In a new paper, the United Kingdom’s Liberal Democratic party has called on the British government to examine the security of public data that is stored in the cloud. The article states, “The Liberal Democrat party has said that the government should investigate the potential for abuse of data owners’ rights...
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by Angela Guess A new paper by Algorithmics “sets out the case for an integrated data-oriented approach to risk management, and outlines the practical steps risk IT professionals can take to achieve this… The paper provides insight into risk-specific data issues, such as the use of shared architectural foundations for marshalling data into risk...
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