Episode 134 – Roaring News: Dataworks Summit Lightning Interviews

A special edition of Big Data News featuring a number of quick interviews at the booths in the community expo hall.

A big thank you to the brave people there that were willing to face the Roving Roaring Mike at the Barcelona Dataworks summit a couple, of weeks ago.

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Episode 133 – Big Data in Cybersecurity with Saad Ayad, featuring Apache Metron (Part 1)

DataLeaks and the resulting attack on our privacy have been a major news item in the recent months. Big data tools like Apache Metron, built on top of Hadoop can be instrumental in detecting and preventing intrusions.

In this episode, we are joined by Saad Ayad who was General Manager Security Operations at Telstra and currently is a Director at Digital Fortress Services in Melbourne Australia. Saad has been active in the cybersecurity world for a long time and we are grateful he was willing to spend some time with us and share his knowledge and experience. Continue reading “Episode 133 – Big Data in Cybersecurity with Saad Ayad, featuring Apache Metron (Part 1)”

Episode 132 – Roaring DataWorks Summit Barcelona, ft. John Mertic

Dataworks Summit 2019 Barcelona has come and gone… Recording live from my hotel room, we give our view on the highs and lows of the event and talk about the things we learned.

This episode also include a short interview with John Mertic from the Linux Foundation who talked to us about Data Governance and ODPi Egeria.

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Episode 131 – Dataworks Summit 2019 Barcelona Session Preview

With the Dataworks summit in Barcelona comming up next week, we take a look at the agenda with the available sessions and take you through our best picks and honorable mentions. Continue reading “Episode 131 – Dataworks Summit 2019 Barcelona Session Preview”

Episode 130 – Roaring News

In this episode of Bite Sized Big Data news, we cover the merging of Data Artisans and Alibaba forming the new Ververica entity, AI related challenges and a BBC cook book for visualizations in R.

Dave had some issues recording his side, our apologies for the rather bad quality of Dave’s audio track on this episode.

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