Click to learn more about author Kevin Petrie. While few technologies sit still, Data Architecture is especially dynamic. Open source innovators and vendors continue to create new Data Lake, streaming and Cloud options for today’s enterprise architects and CIOs. With business requirements also evolving, placing solid strategic bets has rarely been more difficult. It’s therefore no […]
Enterprise Metadata Management Moves Forward
Enterprise Metadata Management and Data Governance vendor Data Advantage Group is continuing to advance its solution since the publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management last summer. At the time, the company’s MetaCenter Enterprise Metadata Repository product, which provides end-to-end data lineage across multiple data sources, was cited as a leader in the Challengers’ […]
Taking the Pain Out of HDFS Upgrades
by Angela Guess BlueData’s Chief Architect Tom Phelan recently wrote an article entitled “HDFS Upgrades Are Painful. But they Don’t Have to Be.” Phelan begins, “It’s hard enough to gather all the data that an enterprise needs for a Hadoop deployment; it shouldn’t be hard to manage it as well. But if you follow the […]
Hadoop Overview: A Big Data Toolkit
Big Data isn’t new. Forbes traces the origins back to the “information explosion” concept first identified in 1941. The challenge has been to develop practical methods for dealing with the 3Vs: Volume, Variety, and Velocity. Without tools to support and simplify the manipulation and analysis of large data sets, the ability to use that data […]