Security threats and incidents can arise in an instant, and the availability of real time on-the-ground intelligence can mean the difference between life and death. In addition to leveraging traditional classified intelligence sources, responders and analysts often turn to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gleaned from news feeds, blogs, and social media to help predict where an incident may occur, understand what’s happening on the groun...

And the winner is…open sourceCome celebrate 15 years of OSCON and open source success Join us July 22-26 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013 in Portland, Oregon. We know you won't want to miss it: we're celebrating the 15th anniversary of OSCON, and it's going to be an extraordinary experience. OSCON is the must-attend gathering of the best and brightest minds in technology, an opportunity to challenge your assumptions and spark...

Government agencies are being tremendously impacted by the challenges of managing and utilizing Big Data. Legions of IT pros are trying to make legacy technology go against its nature. Money is spent, deadlines are missed, pressure is mounting, and your department heads and other constituents don’t quite get it. So how do you really get started? Agenda 8:00am Registration, Breakfast & Networking 8:50am Welcome & Introductions 9:0...

Government sectors are being pressured to become more transparent and communicate government activity to the public. With the leading open source technologies from Drupal and Alfresco, more government agencies are building and managing web and intranet properties under the open government principle. Join Alfresco, Armedia, and Carahsoft for a session that will demonstrate how the integration of Drupal and Alfresco allows for a powerful combina...

The world is more connected now than ever before. From smart phones to the cloud, we have the information we need, whenever we need it. We can communicate and do work with anyone, from anywhere, and advance innovation openly. In this transparent world, the relationships you have are more important than ever. We're on the edge of another technological revolution—from hardware to software-based infrastructure—and Red Hat is well-posi...

National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. National Day of Civic Hack...

Learn about the dynamic management solution behind two of our leading partners, Red Hat and NetApp: Scale and integrate both Linux® and Microsoft Windows workloads Take advantage of the performance benefits, competitive pricing, and trusted, stable environment that you expect from Red Hat New type of consumption based model for customer projects via STaaS (Storage as a Service) Find success under sequestration Discover a datacenter provis...

The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) is an annual meeting of vendors, researchers and developers to promote the evolution and advancement of the OpenCL standard. The meeting is open to anyone who is interested in contributing to, and participating in the OpenCL community. IWOCL is the premier forum for the presentation and discussion of new designs, trends, algorithms, programming models, software, tools and ideas for OpenCL. Additiona...

Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a developme...

The SDVOSB Conference and Expo enables communication between SDVOSBs and the Government Agencies and Prime Contractors who have a desire to work with America's Service Disabled Veteran Entrepreneurs.