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The role of liability in technology
Posted by jcasaretto in CIO Perspectives, ServicesAngle on November 11, 2011
Organizations have a responsibility to secure information. That fact is rather apparent or at least lies within the realm of rational expectation. One ugly truth of this responsibility is that not all parties share responsibility equally, even within a given organization. This is one explanation of why terms of use for software typically are crafted to at least on some level dictate some basic terms and intent. As a security practitioner, all the measures, policies and agreements you put in place are in line with great practice. Therefore it is wise to be aware of a number of perspectives on liability and the numerous realities that come with being the trustees of information and for that matter service integrity. Based on a view of a number of industries and a history of court cases, liability can be gauged to be dependent on three basic factors:
Navigating the Big Data Vendor Landscape
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on November 3, 2011
The Big Data vendor landscape is developing rapidly. A number of vendors have developed their own Hadoop distributions, most based on the Apache open source distribution but with various levels of proprietary customization. The clear market leader in terms of distribution is Cloudera, a Silicon Valley start-up with an all-star line-up of Big Data experts including Hadoop creator Doug Cutting and former Facebook Data Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher. A new entrant to the market is Hortonworks, which was spun out of Yahoo in June 2011 and released a completely open source Hadoop distribution of its own in November 2011.
A Big Data Manifesto from the Wikibon Community
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on October 27, 2011
Providing effective business analytics tools and technologies to the enterprise is a top priority of CIOs and for good reason. Effective business analytics – from basic reporting to advanced data mining and predictive analytics — allows data analysts and business users alike to extract insights from corporate data that, when translated into action, deliver higher levels of efficiency and profitability to the enterprise.
Hadoop, Big Data Focus Shifting To Analytics and Visualization
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle on October 26, 2011
With Hadoop World* less than two weeks away, expect to see an increasing number of vendor announcements regarding the analytics and visualization layers of the Big Data Stack.
That’s because, as the infrastructure layer continues to mature, vendors and increasingly enterprises are turning their attention to the real value proposition of Big Data – namely, deriving actionable insight via Big Data Analytics and Visualization.
Oracle: Big Data Partner or Big Data Boat Anchor?
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle on October 3, 2011
Larry Ellison announced a new Oracle Hadoop/NoSQL Big Data appliance last night at the opening of OpenWorld. So does the new appliance give Oracle immediate Big Data credibility? Not by a long shot.
Oracle will be considered a true player in the Big Data market if and only if it invests heavily in its new appliance, contributes to the Hadoop community, and truly supports its customers that want to focus their data management infrastructure around Hadoop (and not around Oracle). I don’t see any chance Oracle will hit even one of these three marks.
Compliance, Security a changing game
Posted by jcasaretto in CIO Perspectives, Security, ServicesAngle on September 8, 2011
Chief executive officers, physician leaders, and boards of directors wield a number of responsibilities, quite often seen as more important than information security. Yet it’s important that leadership views information security in the same way they do other crucial tasks that help the organization function. All too often however, organizations at best appear to favor focusing strictly on compliance, as opposed to overall security.
HP Bets Its Future on Business Analytics, Big Data
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, HP, ServicesAngle on August 22, 2011
Like IBM before it, HP seems to have come to the realization that satiating CIO’s growing appetite for business analytics software is a better business than manufacturing low-margin personal computers.
During its Q3 earnings call last week, HP announced its intention to get out of the PC and mobile device business and revealed it is in negotiations to acquire Autonomy, a U.K.-based enterprise search vendor that specializes in software to analyze unstructured text-based content.
Both moves, as well as its acquisition of Vertica earlier this year, indicate HP will focus much of its efforts – and bank much of its future — on the enterprise software market. Specifically, HP is hoping to ride the Big Data wave to big profits.
Attivio Shows its Big Data Savvy
Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, Enterprise Applications, ServicesAngle on July 25, 2011
Attivio added a handful of new modules to its Active Intelligence Engine platform today that allow users to tap into the power if Big Data. The AIE Extreme Modules include connectors to Big Data sources, namely Hadoop, as well as MPP data warehouses from vendors including HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, IBM Netezza and Oracle.
Also included are a new recommendation engine that analyzes user-generated Big Data to suggest targeted products and services to customers and a new classification engine that classifies documents based on pre-determined rules and categories.
The new modules, particularly the Hadoop connector, are important developments for both Attivio and its current (and potential) customers.
Malwarebytes takes significant growth steps
Posted by jcasaretto in Security, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on July 18, 2011
Malwarebytes is the company behind the most advanced anti-malware protection and removal software in the industry. This growing company has a unique story rooted in the experiences of founder and chief executive Marcin Kleczynski. As the story goes, Marcin’s own PC had gotten infected with malware and he turned to community resources to try and fix his machine. Frustrated with the amount of effort this had taken, Martin took to writing his own program known as Rogue Remover. This software was distributed to friends and colleagues and officially formed the company and product now known as Malwarebytes. Distributed by the “freemium” model, the company relies on the performance of its product as evidenced by its community ratings. This grass roots approach is what makes this company unique. Reputation and expert referral has led the company’s product to over 100 million downloads to date with no end in sight, adding users at a rate of a million each month.
HP Bets on Open Stack versus iTunes-like Lock-in
Posted by David Vellante in Cloud Computing, Competition, Convergence, HP, Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on July 10, 2011
Traditionally, compute, storage and networking capacity have been purchased as separate resources, with largely independent management structures. Indeed, in most organizations for example, the networking and storage teams have different reporting lines and are measured on achieving different goals. Again, by way of example, networking architectures are highly flexible and designed to accommodate new users quickly. Networking professionals often need to reconfigure the network to support new business growth. Storage on the other hand, particularly block-based SAN storage is a different animal. Usually once the SAN is hardened, storage admins don’t like to mess with the infrastructure and make changes to the system unless absolutely necessary. SAN managers are intensely focused on data reliability and integrity whereas in networking, if data is dropped it can be re-submitted without any major disruption to the business.
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