Learning additional languages is a common practice in the Netherlands. In primary school, we learn English and secondary school offers French, German, and a host of other options. Learning a new language and speaking it well is tricky. Grammar, syntax, turns of phrase and sayings don’t translate (pun intended), and on occasion lead to bizarre […]
As organizations look to get smarter and more agile in how they gain value and insight from their data, they are now able to take advantage of a fundamental shift in architecture. In the last decade, as an industry, we have gone from monolithic machines with direct-attached storage to VMs to cloud. The main attraction […]
When it comes to furnishing our living spaces, it seems we go through phases. When I was just setting out and leaving home, IKEA was my preferred furniture store. You make your choice, collect all the flat-pack boxes, lug them home, and after some hex key gymnastics: voilà. You’ve truly made it! Since then, I’ve […]
Editor’s Note, August 2020: CDP Data Center is now called CDP Private Cloud Base. You can learn more about it here. Wire encryption protects data in motion, and Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the most widely used security protocol for wire encryption. TLS provides authentication, privacy and data integrity between applications communicating over a network […]
Editor’s Note, August 2020: CDP Data Center is now called CDP Private Cloud Base. You can learn more about it here. Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Center(DC) is the on-premises release of Cloudera Data Platform. CDP DC combines the best services and components from Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise along with […]
Clive Humby stated, as far back as 2006, “data is the new oil.” The quote really took off following this 2017 report from The Economist. As a former chemical process engineer, oil immediately makes me think of refining it. Today’s analytics platform for the complete data lifecycle does the same for data as the refinery […]
There are many reasons to run a big data distribution, such as Cloudera Data Hub (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), in the cloud with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The main reason is agility. When the business needs to onboard a new use case, a data admin can bring on additional virtual infrastructure to their clusters in […]
Time Series as Fast Analytics on Fast Data Since the open-source introduction of Apache Kudu in 2015, it has billed itself as storage for fast analytics on fast data. This general mission encompasses many different workloads, but one of the fastest-growing use cases is that of time-series analytics. Time series has several key requirements: High-performance […]
This blog discusses answers to questions like what is the right disk size in datanode and what is the right capacity for a datanode. A few of our customers have asked us about using dense storage nodes. It is certainly possible to use dense nodes for archival storage because IO bandwidth requirements are usually lower […]
An Interview with Dr Richard Harmon, Managing Director, Financial Services, Cloudera Financial Crime is one of the biggest costs for financial institutions with recent research by Refinitiv indicating that global financial services (FS) organisations lost more than $1.4 trillion in 2018. Another Refinitiv report indicates that 97% of FS institutions believe that technology can significantly […]