Tom White, former senior director of business development at MapR Technologies, has joined Snowflake to serve as director of federal partners, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

Matt Mills, former CEO at MapR Technologies, has joined SailPoint Technologies Holdings to serve as chief revenue officer, a role in which he will lead global sales.

Microsoft’s cloud offerings have received certification in Australia to host data at the protected level. The company said Tuesday the Australian government’s signals directorate has added its Azure and Office 365 platforms to the Certified Cloud Services List. Steven Worrall, managing director of Microsoft’s Australian arm, said the Protected Level …

Pete Tseronis, founder and CEO of professional services company Dots and Bridges, has joined the advisory board of the Alliance for Transportation Innovation, GovCon Executive has learned. ATI21 is s a consortium of transportation industry professionals and researchers who aim to promote technology development and deployment within the sector. Tseronis is …

Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web …

Forcepoint is set to conduct the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum on April 11 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia, to facilitate discussions on cyber threats and strategies with security professionals and leaders from industry, federal and state government agencies, defense and intelligence communities. Michael Hayden, a retired U.S. Air Force general; …

Amazon Web Services has introduced new tools designed to help users analyze and integrate Next Generation Weather Radar data with workflows on AWS’ Simple Storage Service cloud platform. NEXRAD is a system composed of 160 Doppler radar sites that work to collect data that commercial firms and researchers use to predict severe storms, …

Vion Corp. has introduced a preconfigured tool designed to help commercial enterprises, government agencies and military branches process, analyze, deploy and secure big data workloads in short amounts of time. The company said Tuesday its DataAdapt Big Data Analytical Platform is equipped with DataAdapt S1000 Rapid Deploy and DataAdapt S2000 …

Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to …

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has unveiled a geospatial application developed by DigitalGlobe to help the public store and process raster data. The MapReduce Geo toolkit is designed for users to search, download, preprocess and format data for analysis using a cloud-based architecture, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. “The project demonstrates how public-private …

Teradata has launched a new data analytics tool that works to leverage the Teradata Aster Discovery Platform and help users learn about relationships between people, products and processes across data sets to guide business decision-making. Businesses can utilize Connection Analytics to identify influencers in consumer activity, prevent customer churn, monitor the system for cyberthreats and detect fraudulent activity, the company said …

Amazon Web Services has partnered with search engine Impala to help customers query their big data sets, VentureBeat reported Friday. Jordan Novet writes Impala is based on Hadoop Distributed File System, an open source program designed to manage large volumes of data. Cloudera, a Hadoop distribution company, built the engine …

Teradata has introduced a new software services offering intended to warehouse data in cloud computing environments, InfoQ reported Monday. Alex Giamas writes the cloud-based tool features three processes such as data loading into the cloud, a discovery platform and a data management part, as well as consulting services for those components. …

EMC Corp. and database software provider RainStor have teamed up to develop a storage platform for companies to manage growing amounts of big data, IT Business Edge reported Thursday. Mike Vizard writes the companies intend to consolidate RainStor’s software with Isilon network attached storage platforms that run the Hadoop distributed …

CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis has released a new suite of hosted information technology services aimed at helping government and other enterprise customers process large volumes of data. Big Data Solutions is intended to offer software and hardware service toosl that store, integrate, retrieve, analyze and secure information via a high-bandwidth network connection, …