Phil Rhodes
Columnist
Phil Rhodes is a senior consultant for Open Software Integrators and the founder and president of Fogbeam Labs.
How to get a successful BI project off the ground
Establish the proper requirements, and you're halfway to a successful BI project. But gathering and rationalizing those requirements demands a rigorous approach
Hands on: Build a Storm analytics solution
Storm lets you create real-time analytics for every conceivable need. Here's a tasty example using Twitter data and source code hosted on GitHub.
Hands on: Build a Storm analytics solution
Storm lets you create real-time analytics for every conceivable need. Here's a tasty example using Twitter data and source code hosted on GitHub
Hopes for Hadoop security ride on Apache Ranger
Enterprise interest in Hadoop has been tempered by security worries. Apache Ranger wants to be the solution for authorization and access control
How to provision users in a cloud world
When subscribing to multiple SaaS offerings serving many users, it gets complicated quickly. Here's how to address the problem now and in the future.
Why you should care about your local hackerspace
Open centers of grassroots innovation, hackerspaces offer opportunities to source talent, create goodwill, and push technology forward.