Big data governance for the hybrid cloud: Best practices and how-to

Big data needs governance. Governance empowers data scientists to find, trust, and use data on their own, yet it can be overwhelming to know where to startespecially if your big data environment spans beyond your enterprise to the cloud. Mark Donsky and Sudhanshu Arora share a step-by-step approach to kick-start your big data governance initiatives.

Organizations must rethink their data management architectures as they embrace Hadoop: they must protect their most critical data assets while empowering the business to perform innovative analysis. At the same time, they must answer the following questions: Mark Donsky and Sudhanshu Arora explain how some of the world’s most sophisticated Hadoop deployments are addressing these data challenges head-on while preserving Hadoop’s flexibility through an integrated data management and governance approach for Hadoop. Mark and Sudhanshu share a big data governance capability maturity model that provides a step-by-step guide to kick-start your big data governance initiatives, based on best practices from leading big data deployments that span many different industries, both regulated and unregulated. Along the way, Mark and Sudhanshu also discuss how users can discover, trust, protect, and govern the data that matters most.