THE OPENCO DETROIT FESTIVAL The best way to experience and learn about the innovation economy isn’t in a stuffy board room – it is up close and personal and in its native habitat. Experienced marketers and conference organizers Brian Monahan and John Battelle would like your support for a new type of business conference called OpenCo, which we like to think of as a mix between a business conference and artist’s open studio wi...

Big Data initiatives like virtualization, VDI, and Hadoop have become an integral part of data centers within the government. With the increasing trend toward reducing costs in the data center with virtualization technologies, network administrators need to make networks, servers, and storage systems as efficient as possible. Arista Networks, in combination with Nutanix, allows data center personnel to have programmable control of the network...

Join NCSI for an In-Agency Technology Expo DCGS-A Innovation Showcase on the C4ISR Campus at Aberdeen Proving Ground August 29, 2013 Each year NCSI produces over 100 tabletop technology expos at U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence and Federal Agency locations around the world including the Pentagon, National Security Agency, Ramstein Air Base and Central Intelligence Agency to name just a few. Our technology expos are typically four (4) h...

The insider threat has come into greater focus in the wake of Edward Snowden’s admission that he leaked government secrets. The director of the NSA, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said his agency would institute “a two-man rule” that would limit the ability of each of its 1,000 system administrators to gain unfettered access to the entire system, writes the New York Times. “The scariest threat is the systems administrator,...

Join Cloudera for a three-part webinar series to learn how Accumulo integrates with CDH, Cloudera Manager, and Cloudera Impala. Attendees will hear from our experts as they highlight the key features of these combined technologies and their importance to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.July 16th - Innovation and Control with Accumulo and CDHAugust 6th - Streamlined Operations for Hadoop and Accumulo with Cloudera ManagerAu...

"How do I do more with less?" is the the question every city government agency is asking. With ever increasing constraints on budget, resources and time, government agencies are left seeking answers to strategic and tactical questions about how they are going to close the gap on citizen expectations and operational performance goals. Some of these questions include: How do we guarantee a level of service performance to citizens as the city pop...

SINET Innovation Summit 2013 Industry - Government - Academia August 6, 2013 | Columbia University, New York, New York Supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Science and Technology The purpose of the Innovation Summit is to reinvigorate public private partnership efforts and increase relationships between industry, government and academia that fosters sharing of information and collaboration on mutual Cybersecurity re...

Join Cloudera for a three-part webinar series to learn how Accumulo integrates with CDH, Cloudera Manager, and Cloudera Impala. Attendees will hear from our experts as they highlight the key features of these combined technologies and their importance to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.July 16th - Innovation and Control with Accumulo and CDHAugust 6th - Streamlined Operations for Hadoop and Accumulo with Cloudera ManagerAu...

Organizations today recognize the need for sustained innovation in order to compete and survive in the global marketplace. But “innovation” is not just about a product (iPads and iPhones, for instance) or so-called “creative” individuals (Steve Jobs and Richard Branson). While these might represent the most visible and tangible evidence that innovation exists, there is far more to the story. Sustained innovation is more...

Join Cloudera for a three-part webinar series to learn how Accumulo integrates with CDH, Cloudera Manager, and Cloudera Impala. Attendees will hear from our experts as they highlight the key features of these combined technologies and their importance to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.July 16th - Innovation and Control with Accumulo and CDHAugust 6th - Streamlined Operations for Hadoop and Accumulo with Cloudera ManagerAu...