Amazon Web Services has released a cloud-based service that works to accelerate containerized big data and potentially help customers save up to 90 percent in computing capability costs.
Read More »Hortonworks' Shaun Bierweiler: Open-Source Tools Could Help Agencies Gain Actionable Intelligence From Data
Shaun Bierweiler, president of Hortonworks' federal business, told Emergency Management in an interview published Wednesday that developers have come up with enterprise open source tools such as Hadoop and Apache NiFi designed to process and generate actionable intelligence from data. “The beauty of using an enterprise open source platform …
Read More »Hortonworks Helps JIDO Implement Enterprise Data Mgmt Platform; Shaun Bierweiler Comments
The Defense Department's Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization has collaborated with Hortonworks to implement an enterprise information technology platform equipped with the Hadoop data management software and other open-source tools, Federal News Radio reported Friday. The report noted the use of such open-source tools has helped JIDO to focus more on the deployment …
Read More »Shaun Bierweiler: Hortonworks to Back 2020 Census With Data Processing Tools
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has said the company will work to provide several data technology platforms for the U.S. Census Bureau in support of the 2020 Census project under a contract awarded in 2017. Bierweiler told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday that the software …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies
“Act locally but learn globally.“ EM: Tell me about your background and how your experience influenced where you are today at MapR. Ted Dunning: My background is non-traditional in many ways. I started in electrical engineering originally but along the way I took time out of school to help …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview with Mike Cosgrave, SVP of CACI Cyber Development
“With connectivity becoming ubiquitous most platforms have varying levels of cyber vulnerabilities. Some are well known…but others are not. We are only waking up to the scale of this challenge ““ and there is much work to do.“ EM: Could you tell our readers about your role for CACI and …
Read More »Microsoft Adds Big Data, Analytics, Visualization Tools to Azure Govt Cloud
Microsoft has added two big data and visualization tools to the company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Tom Keane, a Microsoft general manager, wrote in a blog post published Monday the HDInsight and Power BI offerings are designed to help government agencies manage, analyze and visualize huge quantities of data in Azure. He said HDInsight works to …
Read More »Cloudera, Niara Enter Cybersecurity Tech Reseller Agreement; Tim Stevens Comments
Cloudera has enlisted user and entity behavior analytics company Niara as a reseller of the former’s Hadoop-powered cybersecurity platform in an effort to help clients detect advanced threats. As a Cloudera Enterprise reseller, Niara will apply its machine learning models across various dimensions of user behavior and send a forensic record of the affected …
Read More »Clint Green Named ViON Advanced Analytic Strategy, Dev’t Director; Tom Frana Comments
Clint Green, former chief technology officer at ViON subsidiary Ascolta, has been appointed director of advanced analytic strategy and development at the Herndon, Virginia-based information technology infrastructure services provider. ViON said Wednesday he helped establish Ascolta’s strategic framework and technical vision and has worked on big data, analytics, Hadoop, networking and disaster recovery platforms throughout his career. …
Read More »Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community
Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday. George …
Read More »Zoomdata Signs Deloitte, Northrop & Unisys as Partners for Data Analytics-Focused Federal Program
Big data analytics and visualization technology company Zoomdata has formed new federal practice partnerships with Deloitte, Northrop Grumman and Unisys as part of a new program focused on data services to U.S. government agencies. Zoomdata said Tuesday it intends to train users on how to use its technology through the partnerships in …
Read More »Cloudera, Patterns and Predictions to Build AI Tool for Veteran Mental Health Initiative
Cloudera has partnered with Patterns and Predictions to develop artificial intelligence technology for the prediction of military veterans’ suicide risk based on their social media posts and text messages. The companies seek to integrate Hadoop-based predictive analytics architecture into the AI platform with the goal of helping mental health professionals identify suicidality indicators among …
Read More »Deloitte, Cloudera Launch Joint Financial Analysis Offering; Ashish Verma, Tim Stevens Comment
Deloitte and Cloudera have partnered to offer customers a financial analysis tool designed to help industry fulfill capital analysis and review requirements. The offering incorporates accelerators meant to centralize data selection, data quality, variables conversion, and data ingestion and management, Cloudera said Wednesday. Leveraging Hadoop through Cloudera Enterprise, the financial …
Read More »ManTech-Hortonworks-B23 Alliance Seeks to Drive Adoption of Open Source Cyber Analytics Tech
ManTech International, Hortonworks and B23 have partnered to promote an open-source analytics technology designed to help enterprise customers detect and manage sophisticated cybersecurity threats. The OpenSOC platform is built to analyze more than a million network packets per second, recognize threats in real time and deliver computer network security alerts, …
Read More »CSC Gains PaaS Security Certifications Through Partnership with Cloudera
Computer Sciences Corp. has obtained two security certifications for a Hadoop-based managed service offering intended to help organizations manage big data. CSC said Tuesday it collaborated with Cloudera to meet requirements set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Eddie …
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