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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Thomas Phelan

Thomas Phelan
BlueData CTO/HPE Fellow, HPE BlueData

Website | @tapbluedata

Thomas Phelan is cofounder and chief architect of BlueData. Previously, a member of the original team at Silicon Graphics that designed and implemented XFS, the first commercially availably 64-bit file system; and an early employee at VMware, a senior staff engineer and a key member of the ESX storage architecture team where he designed and developed the ESX storage I/O load-balancing subsystem and modular pluggable storage architecture as well as led teams working on many key storage initiatives such as the cloud storage gateway and vFlash.

Sessions

5:10pm–5:50pm Wednesday, March 7, 2018
How to protect big data in a containerized environment
Data engineering and architecture, Platform security and cybersecurity
 Location: LL21 C/D
Thomas Phelan (HPE BlueData)
Recent headline-grabbing data breaches demonstrate that protecting data is essential for every enterprise. The best-of-breed approach for big data is HDFS configured with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). However, TDE can be difficult to configure and manage—issues that are only compounded when running on Docker containers. Thomas Phelan explores these challenges and how to overcome them. Read more.