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GDPR: There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way (and a Really Wrong Way)…

March 4, 2018 by DataRacketeer Leave a Comment

So GDPR is one of the hottest trending terms in Google right now of interest to those of us doing things with data that might in any way touch on Europeans. Assuming, that is, that we intend to keep doing it after 25 May 2018. As with any regulatory initiative, there’s just no two ways about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comments Tagged: Data Privacy, European Union, GDPR, Personal Data, PII

Apache Arrow: MapD adopts portable, standard in-memory analytics data format from Dremio

December 16, 2017 by DataRacketeer Leave a Comment

Some time back I had the pleasure of meeting some of the good folks at MapD. Among the topics we wound up talking about was Apache Arrow, an emerging in-memory columnar data representation with multiple language bindings which, to make a long story short, can let different analytics solutions pass data from one to another … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comments, Shout-Outs Tagged: dataframe, dremio, drill, GPU, in-memory, mapd, pyspark, Spark, SQL

IBM Fluid Query: Data Virtualization? Not Exactly.

July 26, 2017 by DataRacketeer Leave a Comment

So I like to think I know the data virtualization space fairly well at this point. The competitive landscape for Data Virtualization was part of my beat for a couple of years at Cisco, and I paid attention to anything that could really be interpreted as a threat, which is to say anything from other … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comments, Shout-Outs Tagged: Cisco, Data Virtualization, Data Warehouse, EDW-e, IBM, Logical data warehouse

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