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.
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 in a disaster response setting […] More
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 company will offer its Hortonworks […] More
“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 start up a company. This […] More
“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 how your previous roles and […] More
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 help users build data and […] More
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 entities to a security analyst […] More
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 Hoyem, an investments partner at […] More
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 an effort to help agencies […] More
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 former service members, Cloudera said […] More
