Dan Doney, Chief Innovation Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), will deliver the morning keynote at this year's event. Doney will explore the Big Data challenges facing the DIA and other elements of the Federal Government. He will also highlight how new technologies, related to Big Data, are creating new opportunities for technical breakthroughs, and the principles that DIA is using to foster technical innovation and put ideas i...

Join us in March 2014 at SSON’s largest flagship event in North America, the 18th Annual North American Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, which hosts 800+ shared services and outsourcing practitioners, industry solution providers and leading analyst firms for 3 days of information-sharing, networking and benchmarking. Voted as the #1 conference they would attend in 2014 by over 60% of our US customers, this SS&O event features...

F5 Security TechTalkMitigating DDoS Attacks in Government, Healthcare, and EducationAs the magnitude of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat spectrum continues to evolve, government, healthcare, and higher education IT departments continue to search for the best way to protect applications and data from increasingly sophisticated, well-coordinated attacks. The solution is a strategy that focuses on blocking such attacks, while also...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Join us to learn how new, exciting technologies are evolving in the Big Data community today. This webcast will showcase how these new technologies can be applied in emerging use cases such as law enforcement, supplying real-time sensor data to transportation networks, providing cyber security, mining social media to prevent terrorism, or geospatial imagery for crop yield. Hugh Njemanze, Entrepreneur in Residence at the venture capital firm Kl...

Vast amounts of disparate data, from a variety of data sources across government enterprises, can easily hinder effective decision-making. Deciding how to capture, search, organize, and process this data is truly a complex task for any organization. The implementation of trusted Big Data search and analytics solutions for the production of timely, actionable information requires leading edge technologies that are proven at, and beyond, the ent...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

News and Updates from F5 Networks Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for the re-start of our Gov TechTalk series for the Fort Meade area. Monthly presentations are scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month at the Courtyard Marriott through June 2014. To kick things off, F5 will present some big developments from the last 6 months, including: An overview of a completely refreshed hardware product line An introduction to F5’s Synthesis ar...

December 18, 2013 @ 12pm ET | 9am PT Join others who have already offloaded storage & processing from Teradata, Oracle, Netezza & DB2 onto Hadoop to save millions by avoiding upgrades! Offloading makes your data warehouse run faster for critical end-user queries & frees up storage for Big Data -- but how do you make the jump? What transformations are costing you the most? What data in your warehouse are you not using? Attend this w...

SINET Showcase & Workshops 2013 National Press Club, Washington D.C. | December 4-5 2013 SINET programs are designed to build community of interest and trust in order to “Give the Entrepreneur a Voice...” The SINET Workshops & Showcase bridges the gap between innovative early stage and emerging IT security solution providers and representatives from the investment, research, system integration, industry and Federal Governme...