Learnings from 2019 MIT CDOIQ Symposium
August 26, 2019
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of representing Okera, as one of the partners of the 2019 MIT Chief ...
Okera Adds Visual, Natural Language Policy Creation Workflow to Data Lake Security and Governance Platform
August 23, 2019Okera Policy Builder enables data stewards and governance teams to easily create and manage fine-grained access control policies San Francisco, CA, ...
PRESS RELEASE: Okera Expands Data Lake Security and Governance Platform
June 18, 2019Enables GDPR and CCPA compliance with first granular access control for both structured and unstructured data on Microsoft Azure Data ...
How to Connect Tableau Using a JDBC Standalone Configuration
June 6, 2019Connecting Tableau Desktop to ODAS One great benefit of the Okera platform is its client-compute flexibility. Today you can integrate a ...
Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for Data Lakes at Scale
May 21, 2019Okera recently released Okera Active Data Access Platform (ODAP) 1.4. In this post, we’ll look at the following new capabilities ...
PRESS RELEASE: Okera Named TiE50 Award Winner at TiEcon
May 11, 2019San Francisco, CA – May 10, 2019 — Okera, the leading active data management company for data lake security and ...
PRESS RELEASE: Okera Introduces Attribute-Based Access Control for Data Lake Security and Access Management
April 25, 2019Automates sensitive data tagging and policy assignment for managing access at scale NEWS PROVIDED BY Okera April 25th, 2019, 09:05 ET SAN FRANCISCO, ...
Data Access Control & Governance for Enterprise-wide ML/AI adoption at Strata San Francisco.
April 18, 2019Recap of Thought Leadership and Deployment Experience Sessions from Strata Data Conference 2019 in San Francisco Okera enjoyed an amazing Strata ...
Okera Wins Strata Data Award for Most Disruptive Startup
March 30, 2019O’Reilly and Cloudera recognize Okera among the most innovative data-driven startups at 2019 Strata Data Conference San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March ...
Okera Heads to Strata SF + Introduces New FGAC for Unstructured Data
March 21, 2019We’re headed to Strata San Francisco from March 25-28 to showcase the latest enhancements to Okera’s Active Data Access Platform. ...
Getting started on ODAS with PyOkera and Jupyter
February 21, 2019At Okera we like to say “bring your own compute” to your ODAS-enabled data lake. It’s our way of pointing ...
Leveraging PyOkera’s Usage of Client-Side Concurrency
February 7, 2019PyOkera is our Python client library that provides customers with the ability to integrate their LOB applications directly into an ...
Apache Ranger User Guide – Data Access Control & Governance In the Cloud
February 1, 2019Apache Ranger is an open-source project for providing data access control in a Hadoop ecosystem. It is (now merged with ...
Happy New Year from Okera.
January 3, 2019Happy New Year to you! I spent time over the holidays reflecting on 2018 and planning for 2019. I wanted ...
User Guide: Replacing ‘componentWillReceiveProps’ with ‘getderivedstatefromprops’
December 20, 2018Introduction React is in the process of deprecating a lifecycle method we used quite a bit at Okera, namely componentWillReceiveProps. The ...
AWS Lake Formation – Data Lakes Made Easy
December 8, 2018Thoughts about AWS Lake Formation At AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, we talked to more than 1,000 folks who were interested in what ...
Okera Introduces Intelligent Schema Management for Amazon S3 Data Lakes
November 28, 2018Today we unveiled our new intelligent schema management that automates dataset discovery, schema inference, policy assignment, and governance for data ...
Okera Expands Executive Team With Ravi Ramachandran as VP of Sales
November 14, 2018There’s exciting news at Okera today. We’re expanding our executive team with the appointment of Ravi Ramachandran to Vice President ...
Okera in the News: Intellyx
November 10, 2018Check out our latest media coverage by Intellyx “Okera: Helping Enterprises Strike the Balance Between Agility and Data Governance” Written by ...
Okera to Showcase New Data Lake Security and Governance Technology at AWS re:Invent 2018
November 3, 2018We’re headed to AWS re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas from November 26-30. We’ll be showcasing the latest advances in our ...
Using Java Lambda Expressions
October 20, 2018In Java 8, Lambda expressions were introduced, which is Java’s first step towards support for functional programming. Functional programming is declarative ...
Joining Okera as a New Grad
October 9, 2018The opportunities currently available out of college are plentiful if a computer science student has the right strategy. However, making ...
Modern SDLC @ Okera
September 28, 2018“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” — Aristotle One of the important ...
What’s new in Okera Active Data Access Platform 1.2
September 19, 2018Today we released the latest update to Okera Active Data Access Platform. In this post, we will take a look ...
Using JWTs To Secure Your App
September 18, 2018When writing client/server applications, it is often necessary that a service restricts data to a set of trusted users. In ...
Okera Named Best Big Data Startup by Datanami
September 13, 2018Third Annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards given to leaders in the global Big Data community San Francisco, CA — September ...
OKERA at Strata Data Conference
September 9, 2018Okera is pleased to announce we will be in New York next week for the Strata Data Conference. We will ...
Why I joined Okera…
September 8, 2018There are a bunch of factors that impacted my decision to join Okera. As you read this, keep in mind ...
Access Control Views – Best Practices
August 24, 2018Who needs control? This blog post continues the topic of Schema Design Best Practices and focuses on the access control view layer. ...
Best Practices for Database Schema Design
August 16, 2018Why do we need Database Schema Design? Data organization is a vital performance optimization technique proven by use in legacy data ...
Solving GDPR Challenges with Okera (Part 2)
June 28, 2018In this two part series we will focus on GDPR challenges facing organizations and how Okera can help solve them. ...
Solving GDPR Challenges with Okera (Part 1)
June 20, 2018In this two part series we will focus on GDPR challenges facing organizations and how Okera can help solve them. ...
Okera, fka Cerebro Data, steps out with a new name, new funding, new product
May 22, 2018In recent years, we have witnessed a massive transformation in the kinds of technologies available to companies to work with ...
PRESS RELEASE : Okera Launches Out of Stealth with $14.6M in Funding
May 22, 2018San Francisco, CA – May 22, 2018 – Okera today launched out of stealth mode with $12 million in Series ...
Reusable Redux with REST
March 2, 2018At Cerebro, our goal is to give our users as many tools as possible for accessing data. The types of ...
Modern Self-Service Data Platforms
December 11, 2017Last week at AWS re:Invent, I heard several customers talk about how they are building data platforms in the cloud. ...
What I learned from my design thinking internship at an enterprise startup
December 7, 2017When I first moved to San Francisco and started my job search, I began to feel that there wasn’t much ...
How to Kerberize Your Grizzly REST Server
November 3, 2017If you are already aware of the Grizzly framework, you can skip forward to the Kerberization process. The Grizzly NIO framework ...
