Tag Archives: Analytics

Hera Systems plans to launch its first imaging satellites in October 2016 after it completed preliminary design review of the spacecraft and secured an initial round of funds from investors led by Firsthand Capital. The company said Thursday the nine-satellite constellation will work to produce images and video that its analytics platform will utilize …

Booz Allen Hamilton and Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary have partnered to offer technical expertise to government and commercial organizations as both companies aim to help clients address their mission and business challenges. Michael Farber, a Booz Allen executive vice president, said Thursday the alliance will also explore strategies to integrate PARC’s sensor technology and …

Alex Rossino, a senior principal research analyst at Deltek, reports that information security policies and management programs in the federal government are driving agencies to invest in cloud computing and big data technologies. He wrote in a blog article published Tuesday the market research company has forecast that federal agencies will collectively increase their …

Cybersecurity firm SignalSense has obtained $4.5 million in a seed funding round from several investors, including Trilogy Equity Partners, Tola Capital and Ignition Partners. The company said Thursday it will use the money to further develop a network security intelligence technology and fund the company’s efforts to expand in the …

A U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP and Altamira Technologies have forged an alliance to combine their big data analytics platforms into a joint offering as the companies seek help clients discover relationships in their data. Altamira said Friday it will incorporate SAP’s in-memory database and computation engine HANA with the former company’s LUMIFY big data fusion, analytic and visualization platform. …

DigitalGlobe and Intelescope Solutions have forged a partnership that aims to help Intelescope’s forestry industry clients evaluate the health and volumes of commercial timber through the use of satellite imagery-based information. Intelescope will use the DigitalGlobe-built Geospatial Big Data tool to run its proprietary algorithms against large volumes of satellite imagery …

IronNet Cybersecurity has obtained $32.5 million in a Trident Capital Cybersecurity-led funding round to further develop a platform designed to protect enterprises’ network infrastructures from potential cyber threats. IronNet’s cyber defense tool works to detect anomalous network patterns through the use of petabyte-scale analytics and behavioral models, IronNet said Sunday. …

Symantec and Tata Consultancy Services have forged an analytics-based security alliance for customers. The companies will combine their respective security technologies in order to establish joint security services offerings, Tata Consultancy Services said Friday. Anirban Chakravartti, head of global alliances at Symantec, said the joint offerings are intended to deliver “technology, …

Cisco and the University of California San Francisco have teamed up to develop a platform designed to achieve interoperability among health information technology systems. UCSF said Wednesday it will set up a center at the university’s Mission Bay campus to collaborate with Cisco and other health technology experts to develop …

Telos and George Washington University have agreed to jointly build data analytics tools and algorithmic methods in an effort to help U.S. organizations to secure cyber and physical infrastructure assets. The university also plans to open a data analytics research center at its science and technology campus in Northern Virginia under …

A Research and Markets report forecasts that big data in government and defense market will grow 30 percent year-over-year through 2020. The research firm said Tuesday the growth will be driven by the emergence of data management technologies such as NoSQL database and Hadoop MapReduce platforms. The government and defense industry accounts for approximately …

Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform. The Accenture AWS Business Group will also provide services for enterprise clients, such as application migration …

ICF International has received two task orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worth $21.9 million combined to maintain CDC’s HIV/AIDS surveillance system and analyze health-related data. ICF will operate CDC’s reporting system designed to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. under a $6.9 million task order …

LogRhythm has added new automation, data management and incident response orchestration tools to a unified cybersecurity offering designed to help enterprises address sophisticated threats. The company said Thursday version 7 of its security intelligence and analytics platform works to collect, examine and prioritize events from multiple disparate information sources. Chris …

IBM and Thomson Reuters have partnered to provide IBM’s Watson cognitive technology to Thomson Reuters’ customers. Thomson Reuters will apply Watson technology to content analytics, natural language processing and evidence-based learning areas in order to assist clients in gaining insights into large volumes of data, IBM said Thursday. Mike Rhodin, …