BIG DATA QUARTERLY
SUMMER 2016 • Volume 2, Number 2
CONTENTS
editor’s note | Joyce Wells
2 The Big Data Evolution
departments
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
6 INSIGHTS | Suni Munshani
Prepare Now to Avoid Future Cross-Border Data Headaches
8 INSIGHTS | TJ Horan
Six Tips for Getting the Most Out of Big Data Analytics
10 TRENDING NOW | Joyce Wells
Why Is Spark So Hot? Q&A With Databricks’ Kavitha Mariappan
24 INSIGHTS | Patrick McFadin
How Throwing Away Data Limits the Power of the IoT
26 TRENDING NOW | Joyce Wells
Jacques Nadeau on the New Apache Arrow Project
features
4 THE VOICE OF BIG DATA
Next-Generation Databases for Big Data; Q&A With Dell’s Guy Harrison
12 COVER STORY | Jim Scott
Seven Key Technologies in the Evolving Hadoop Ecosystem
22 BIG DATA BY THE NUMBERS
Hybrid Clouds on the Horizon
columns
27 BIG DATA BASICS | Lindy Ryan
Five Steps to Visual Data Storytelling
28 CLOUD CURRENTS | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Does GDPR Spell the End of the Cloud as We Know It Today?
30 THE IoT INSIDER | Stuart Taylor
The Race for Small Data
31 GOVERNING GUIDELINES | Anne Buff
Embarking on a Data Expedition
32 DATA SCIENCE DEEP DIVE | Bart Baesens
Commercial Versus Open Source Software for Analytics