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 …

CA Technologies has launched a data modeling tool that aims to help businesses manage, visualize and share information from traditional and modern sources. ERwin r9.5 software is designed to support big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop Hive, Cloudera and Google BigQuery, CA said Tuesday. “The rise of big data has …

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, …

Silicon Graphics International has developed a new server system that works to support Intel‘s Xeon line of microprocessors, ZDNet reported Sept. 10. Andrew Brust writes SGI builds hardware to integrate with Cloudera‘s pre-loaded Apache Hadoop software and MarkLogic‘s enterprise NoSQL database. The new SGI appliance is based on the Ivy Bridge …

Dell has unveiled a suite of new products and services for cloud technology, big data and open source applications through new contributions for projects under Cloudera, Hadoop, OpenStack and SUSE. The new offerings are intended to help support business transformation through modernization programs, Dell said Tuesday. Dell has also collaborated …

Michael Shrader serves as vice president of Carahsoft’s innovative and intelligence solutions business team. In his role at the Reston,Va.-based company, the 8 1/2-year company veteran represents emerging, small to medium-sized companies looking to sell their advanced technology solutions to the government. The company’s solutions divisions market, sell and deliver …

In-Q-Tel has signed an investment and technology agreement with Tyfone to help that company provide its mobile security and near field communications products to federal agencies, the companies announced Monday. Tyfone develops mobile platforms to secure cloud computing and near field communications transactions “We believe that Tyfone’s technology has the potential to …

The intelligence community is reportedly looking to use more than satellite images and traditional reports to gain insight into adversaries’ actions, according to NextGov. Amr Awadallah, CloudEra’s chief technology officer, told NextGov agencies are looking to algorithms that can search GPS reports and social media data to gain intelligence on …

Carahsoft Technology Corp. will host the second annual Government Big Data Forum March 6 in Washington, Carahsoft announced Thursday. The forum will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Hotel. Attendees from both the public and private sectors will discuss trends, issues and implementation of big …