Since the launch of the 2012 Big Data Initiative, where the government invested over $250 million in Big Data throughout its federal agencies, we have seen the benefits and opportunities in this technology. Everywhere from border control, to health care records and scientific research, Big Data is playing a pivotal role in accomplishing critical missions and objectives. The amount of data the government faces is at its highest ever and less th...

For many organizations, adopting a more analytical and integrated budgeting and performance management software is a top priority in 2014. However, selecting the right system that fits an agency's exact needs is nearly impossible without putting time, effort and thought into the software selection process and, most importantly, establishing QUALITY requirements. Join us on Thursday, February 20 for a free webinar, "How to Define Budgeting and...

Continuous Monitoring for the Cloud As outlined by NIST, the objective of a continuous monitoring program is to determine if the complete set of planned, required, and deployed security controls within an information system, or inherited by the system, continue to be effective over time in light of the inevitable changes that occur. Monitoring this change is challenging even in traditional datacenter environments with dedicated physical server...

Registration is now open for the third annual Cloudera Federal Forum! Join us on Thursday, February 6th, 2014, as leaders from government and industry convene to share Big Data best practices. This is a must attend event for any organization or agency looking to be information-driven and give access to more data to more resources and applications. During this informative event you will learn: > Key trends in government today and the role B...

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...

Making Big Data User-Centric Part II The modern data environment is not only about size; it is growing increasingly distributed and decentralized. Today, organizations are being inundated with data from an ever-expanding array of internal and external sources. Traditional databases and data warehouses are getting bigger and bigger alongside silos of new data types popping up across the enterprise. Volume, variety and complexity are the reality...

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...