According to Gartner, 73% of the world’s enterprises are using or planning to adopt big data platforms and analytical tools to better understand their operations, outcomes, and opportunities. This megatrend is driven by the increasing awareness of public and private sector organizations that technology and expertise are essential to unlock the value of the data they use, regardless of format or source. Few enterprises benefit more from i...

WELCOME TO TDWI ORLANDO There’s nothing better than getting our hands on that next new innovation, figuring it out, and putting it to work to solve new problems and add new business insights. But what happens when it doesn’t work? What mistakes can we avoid? Fortunately, there are resources to maximize our chances of success. There are lessons to be learned. TDWI has been offering just that guidance for nearly 20 years. When new te...

As the government focuses on creating innovative solutions to save money, thieves are focused on undermining that progress. Sometimes it's hard to tell which side has the advantage. Identity thieves and others who cheat the government are working on an industrial scale, devising complex scams that include hundreds of accomplices. The Federal government is losing an estimated $300 billion per year to fraud. Thieves target Medicare and Medicaid,...

Big Data TechCon features practical, how-to classes and tutorials for IT and Big Data professionals, including data and business analysts, developers, software architects, data scientists, and project managers. Big Data TechCon is the how-to Big Data training conference for professionals implementing and analyzing Big Data. Attend Big Data TechCon to get practical Hadoop training, classes on MapReduce, R, Hive and Pig. Take a Big Data analytic...

Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise You’re well aware of the benefits of agile—increasing productivity and flexibility, providing faster time to value, and supporting collaborative relationships between users and IT developers. One problem: it’s becoming increasingly complex to marry agile techniques with enterprise databases, and handle complex modeling in an agile environment. Whether you’ve tried agile before or are...

GTRA Technology Council Meeting - Government IT Security CollaborationJune 22 - 24, 2014The Lansdowne, Leesburg, VA The GTRA Technology Council Meeting brings together an elite group of federal IT leaders who believe in the importance of executive-level collaboration and information exchange to support the transformation of the federal government through IT. Collaborative discussions will focus on the critical issues currently facing the commu...

The 2014 Akamai Government Forum – June 5th in Washington D.C. at the Renaissance Hotel Secure computing is the IT architect of the future. The use of cloud technology is helping to streamline the way agencies operate and reshape the security landscape. Cloud security is accelerating the transformation of agency systems from something to be passively guarded into a suite of capabilities that offer government leaders opportunities to adju...

O’Reilly Solid, happening May 21-22 in San Francisco, is a new conference focusing on the intersection of software and hardware, and the programmable world. Solid is where hardware engineers, software developers, product managers, roboticists, designers, innovators, and business leaders will gather to explore opportunities this perfect storm of intelligent things will bring — covering everything from wearables to robotics, to the I...

IDGA’s Data Center Optimization has redefined its scope by addressing not only consolidation, but also other forms of optimization. By attending this event, IT, government and military professionals will have the opportunity to exchange valuable business information, as well as gain valuable insight on how to achieve your own task-specific missions as well as those overarching organizational goals. Addressing consolidation, energy effici...

EMC World 2014 returns to Las Vegas May 5-8 at The Venetian! As data growth explodes, EMC creates the infrastructure that enables you to manage your business and your career. Come to EMC World 2014 to find out what’s next! When you come to EMC World, the fun and bright lights are just the beginning. IT stars, hands-on product demonstrations, hundreds of technical sessions on every nuance of IT life, opportunity to take FREE EMC Proven Pr...