Arse biscuits
a Hadoop Use Group UK (HUGUK) meeting
'Hug'? I think they mean 'suffocate'. Gently and lovingly, no doubt, and for all the right reasons.
and that the department's current approach to data would remain in place.
Yes, that's certainly true. The fact that their current approach of 'grab, amalgamate, and tell no-one' might be wrong never quite occurred to them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
