All businesses have assets that depreciate over time. It’s intuitive that the extended use of a given piece of a equipment decreases its value, and we see this in our daily lives with the cars we drive or the old electronics we sell. Data, however, isn’t typically viewed as an asset that loses value over…
Author Archives: Ryan Lippert
What Professional Sports Can Teach us About Data-Driven Competitive Advantage
Categories: General
Fall is a special time of year for North American professional sports. Autumn gives us the MLB playoffs, the start of the NHL and NBA seasons, as well as the heart of the NFL season. It’s a terrific time to be a fan (particularly if your favorite team happens to have a cyborg named Madison…
Apache Kudu is now a Top-Level Apache Software Foundation Project
Categories: Open Source Software
In September of 2015, Cloudera announced an innovative new storage engine for fast analytics on fast data: Kudu. The project is a response to users and customers that were stitching together hybrid architectures to draw out the benefits of Apache HDFS and Apache HBase while minimizing the gaps in those projects. HDFS can scan a…