Data between siloes: thoughts on Tech Week and Privacy Week

May. 13, 2017 by

I’ve had a busy week of networking, with the Privacy Commissioner‘s Privacy Week overlapping Tech Week, and an interesting Government Information Group presentation from the Social Investment Unit as well.

Data Lakes on AWS

Apr. 30, 2017 by

I enjoyed presenting to the Wellington Amazon Web Services’ User Group on Data Lakes on AWS this week. Data lakes on Amazon Web Services from Steven Ensslen

Register for my data lakes talk

Apr. 11, 2017 by

I’m going to be presenting on data lakes with Athena and Quicksight to the Wellington Amazon Web Services’ meetup on April 26. Register now as it is filling up quickly.

Thoughts on 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics

Feb. 20, 2017 by

Last week, Gartner published the 2017 edition of their review of business intelligence and analytics platforms. The review is behind a pay wall, and, not conincidentally, all of reviewed platforms

Quick Thoughts on Security Architecture in the Internet of Things

Aug. 8, 2016 by

I returned from the Wellington DevOps meetup a few minutes ago to find Vice.com’s post on Hacking Monitors had been slashdotted.  Tom Eastman talked about appropriate security architecture for the