Booz Allen Hamilton executives wrote in an article published Thursday on The New England Journal of Medicine that federal health care agencies should leverage data science tools and lessons from the intelligence community to optimize big data in order to improve care quality and reduce costs. Steve Escaravage, a senior vice president and head of Booz Allen’s digital, analytics and strategy practice, co-wrote the piece with Kevin Vigilante, an executive VP and a health business leader at the company; and Mike McConnell, a senior executive adviser at Booz Allen.
Read More »Dell EMC Federal’s Cameron Chehreh: Data Lakes Could Help Agencies Derive More Insights
Cameron Chehreh, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said data lakes work to help federal agencies build “a consolidated and scalable agile repository” that allows them to generate insights from data, FedTech Magazine reported Friday. Chehreh noted that data lakes have the ability to take in any type of data, a feature that enables agencies to develop a mechanism to add metadata to help users with access to data lakes to easily tag and search information.
Read More »DLT, Evident.io Forge AWS Cloud Security Partnership for Govt Clients
DLT Solutions and Evident.io have teamed up to offer a tool designed to help government clients secure their cloud infrastructure. Both companies will provide public sector clients with the Evident Security Platform that works to assess security misconfigurations and detect vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments through collection …
Read More »General Atomics Unveils New Data Management Software
General Atomics has introduced a software platform designed to manage big data workloads. The company said Thursday Nirvana 5.0 works to help clients in energy exploration, scientific research and media sectors manage data-intensive workflows as well as locate information through the use of workflow-defined metadata. General Atomics’ metadata software is designed to …
Read More »Capella University, Pearson to Issue Digital Badges for NSA/DHS Master’s Program Students
Capella University has collaborated with Pearson to issue digital badges that utilizes the latter company’s Acclaim platform for students under the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security master’s program. Badges issued through Acclaim will record professional skills its students have gained through coursework and certificate programs and be available for delivery to potential …
Read More »Vencore Selects StorExcel to Develop NASA Content Mgmt System
Vencore has subcontracted systems integration services provider StorExcel to develop an integrated storage and content management tool based on Quantum Corp.’s storage platform for installation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. StorExcel will integrate Quantum’s StorNext 5 platform with Telestream-built Vantage media processing tool and IPV-made Curator system for media asset management under the …
Read More »Tom Lyons: General Dynamics Fidelis Updates Malware Scanning and Remediation Platform
General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit has announced new updates to a security analytics platform designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate any malicious activity on computer networks. XPS Collector works to automatically correlate threat intelligence with network metadata to reduce the time it takes for security analysts to find a threat …
Read More »Cisco Updates Enterprise Video Surveillance Platform; Guido Jouret Comments
Cisco has added new features to its video surveillance portfolio for businesses to configure and manage security cameras across the organization. Video Surveillance Manager 7 works to connect millions of digital video cameras to a central user interface and help multiple users stream the same videos from any location, Cisco said …
Read More »General Dynamics Fidelis Subsidiary Develops Metadata Scanning Program; Peter George Comments
Fidelis Security Systems released a cybersecurity program that stores and scans metadata for viruses or attacks, the company announced Wednesday. General Dynamics recently closed its acquisition of Fidelis and integrated Fidelis into the advanced information systems unit. John Jolly, vice president and general manager of the AIS unit’s cyber division, …
Read More »PPC Expert to Give Lightning Talk on Social Media, Metadata Wednesday
Joseph Busch, knowledge management expert at Project Performance Corp., will give a short presentation on social media and metadata Wednesday as part of the Metadata Marathon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The marathon will consist of several short presentations, or lightning talks, from metadata experts according …
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