If there is any government agency that knows something about strategy, it is the Department of Defense (DoD). This makes it no surprise that the DoD would approach its next steps for IT modernization, strategy in hand. From creating a unified “open data” environment with the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and ramping up cybersecurity, to consolidating data centers as part of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementat...

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...

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...

The DGI (Defence Geospatial Intelligence) Conference & Exhibition brings together heads of defence geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, GIS data & mapping, satellite imagery and analysis within the military, governmental, and intelligence sectors. It attracts professionals who are responsible for using, and integrating, geo based capabilities in their operations and organizations. DGI provides a unique forum for defence intelligenc...

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...

The White House recently unveiled 28 industry partnerships to help promote agency Big Data initiatives. Government entities are using solutions that feature capabilities such as in-memory computing and real-time data visualization to improve mission-critical apps, streamline their ability to analyze data, and leverage more agency information to enhance decision-making and provide more/better constituent services. While there are challenges to...

Big data can mean big insight, but to date has required lots of heavy lifting through extensive ETL processes and considerable pain to set up. How can you tap into big data to unlock new sources of insight for your business quickly and easily? View this informative web seminar to learn how you can leverage Birst agile business analytics to access, transform and visualize information stored in Hadoop to drive your organization’s big data...

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...

Biometrics Analytics, Big Data and Biometric-Enabled Intelligence— Next-Generation Capabilities and Opportunities The proliferation of new collection devices, a range of new developments in recognition technologies, innovative approaches to sensor and data fusion, and the emergence of powerful analytic tools give defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement officials important new capabilities to carry out their missions...