TDWI Articles

Forbidden Fruit: Reconciling Data Temptations and Privacy Rules

Data is seductive. Here are five steps designers can take to make sure they don’t succumb to data’s temptations.

Data Digest: Flash Tackles Big Data Analytics, BI in Africa, and How HIPAA Hinders Analytics

Flash platforms are helping enterprises analyzing big data, plus the growing need for BI in Africa and how HIPAA can impede analysis of protected healthcare data.

Data Digest Mar 21 2016

Properly securing your cloud migration, plus why open source software might be more secure than private software and Hadoop best practices.

Learning to Lose Control

Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.

Understanding the Engineer’s Data Access Challenge

Data management has been focused on storage with access an afterthought. We must take the reverse approach, thinking in terms of data access first.

Data Digest: Spark v. Hadoop, Cloud Security, and Big Data Frameworks Rundown

Comparing big data frameworks, plus how to secure your cloud computing environment.

Divide and Control: Roles vs. Rules in Access Management

Role-based access control is the norm in many companies, but binding users to statically defined roles is an inflexible approach. Attribute-based control offers more opportunity and flexibility to get security right.

Data Digest: Machine Learning, BI in the 21st Century, and Analytics Battles Privacy

Can a robot perform analytics on big data, plus using modern tools to manage unstructured big data and data analytics vs. consumer privacy.

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