In March 2012, the White House announced funding for a large new research and development initiative aimed at extracting and exploiting the “knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data to help solve some of the Nation’s most pressing challenges.” This is in addition to numerous ongoing “Big Data” programs that have been initiated across the Federal Government, including Homeland Secur...

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...

Visual Studio Live! is thrilled to be returning to Chicago - Live Long and Code! This May, developers, software architects and designers will blast off in the windy city for four days of unbiased and cutting-edge education on the Microsoft Platform. This event is your guide to the WCF, ALM, Web Development, Data Management and Visual Studio universes. Explore hot topics like Web API, jQuery, MongoDB, SQL Server Data Tools and more! Code with ....

Taking place on April 22–24, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA, the Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI) is for systems administrators, technical managers, systems engineers, and implementers from both the enterprise customer and vendor communities. DSI offers an expanded agenda that includes many of the same topics, as well as vendor–neutral SNIA Tutorials, end–user case studies, presentations from Storage–focused analysts...

Devote a day to increasing your understanding of leading-edge issues in cyber security being or to be addressed by public-private cooperation and collaboration in research and technical solutions by government, academia, and industry. Monday, March 24, 2014 The Mason Inn 4352 Mason Pond Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 Listen to government decision makers who face daily the dual challenge of completing their agencies' objectives while protecting their...

GIGAOM STRUCTURE DATA 2014 The world's biggest and most innovative companies are using data to make better products, build bigger profits and even change the world. Join 900+ big data practitioners, technologists and executives as they examine how big data can drive business success. From grand new uses to the nuts and bolts of capturing, storing, analyzing and serving it, get the bottom line on big data now. Come find out what's next. At Stru...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...