Intro to Big Data

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Data lakes have enormous potential as a source of business intelligence when included as part of an advanced open data architecture. Organizations use data lakes to efficiently store and process a combination of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data at scale, powering multiple business intelligence and data science initiatives to support a variety of business units across an organization.

whitePaper | August 2, 2022

The volume of data has exploded across all sectors in the last decade. Enterprise data has grown enormously, and organizations must contend with more unstructured data than ever. In fact, 95 percent of businesses cite the need to manage unstructured data as a challenge.

whitePaper | March 12, 2020

In recent months, my company (Baron Consulting) has been proactively involved in setting up Data Collection Systems for a range of Private and Public Organisations we are servicing. Some of the data collection challenges have already been discussed in our recent Raw Data Collection 2020: Principles and Challenges White Paper. While the RDC (Raw Data Collection) paper analysed the current state of the everchanging Data Collection requirements, it did not have the scope to address technicalities of the RDC processes along with the specific Data Collection tools and methods. The purpose of this paper is to fill the void by looking into implementation of the automated data collection processes.

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

The rise of Big Data and Data Analytics provides great opportunities for organizations to realize new ways of doing business and will give a significant increase in added value. Organizations that do not ‘catch the Big Data Analytics train’ run the risk of falling behind. According to the European Commission1 the value of European citizens’ personal data has the potential to grow to nearly € 1 trillion a year by 2020.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

In August 2022, the California Office of the Attorney General announced a $1.2 million settlement with international cosmetic retailer Sephora for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Following this announcement came a wave of questions about the regulator’s emphasis on the broad interpretation of the CCPA’s “sale of data” and adoption of the Global Privacy Control.

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

As businesses adopt the cloud, they grapple with massive data fragmentation, making it impossible to know where sensitive data resides. At the same time, the increasing risk of data privacy breaches and noncompliance with regulations impose serious financial penalties. Sensitive Data Monitoring and Management is a SaaS application, hosted by Rubrik Security Cloud, that discovers, classifies, and then reports on sensitive data without any impact to production.