BIG DATA QUARTERLY
FALL 2016 • Volume 2, Number 3
CONTENTS
editor’s note | Joyce Wells2 Moving Fast While Maintaining Balance
departments
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
11 INSIGHTS | Paul S. Barth
Data Lake Power Tips: Making Hadoop Work in the Enterprise
32 TRENDING NOW
Into the Open—Splice Machine Launches Community Edition
43 INSIGHTS | Skip Bacon & Bob Madaio
Bridging Legacy and Cloud
features
4 THE VOICE OF BIG DATA
Making Big Data Valuable: Q&A With Amit Walia, EVP and Chief Product Officer of Informatica
6 FEATURE ARTICLE | Joe McKendrick
The Emerging Agile Data Architecture: NoSQL, Hadoop, & Beyond
SPECIAL SECTION > BIG DATA 50
20 Introduction
21 Big Data 50: Companies Driving Innovation
30 BIG DATA BY THE NUMBERS
Cost of Data Breaches on the Rise
columns
34 BIG DATA BASICS | Lindy Ryan
Ten Golden Rules of Data Visualization
35 CLOUD CURRENTS | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Lessons Learned From the Cloud
37 HADOOP PLAYBOOK | Jim Scott
Your Data and the Cloud
39 GOVERNING GUIDELINES | Anne Buff
Guiding the Data Expedition
40 DATA SCIENCE DEEP DIVE | Bart Baesens
Fraud Analytics Using Social Networks