Traditional Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) have heavily depended on the use of Relational Databases (RDBMS) for indexing. Extensive evaluation, trials, and experience have surfaced MongoDB as the ideal database technology for building a new breed of GIS system for Big Data scenarios. While Relational Databases can be very effective tools, they place a priority on long-running transactions, pre-defined fixed normalized schemas, and large...

Join us as we describe big data technologies including Apache Hadoop and how government organizations have been successfully deploying these technologies. We will discuss the fundamentals of Hadoop and how it fits into government initiatives. In this live webcast, Bob Gourley, Editor of CTOvision.com and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, and Omer Trajman, Vice President of Customer Solutions at Cloudera, will review the top federal mission needs for b...

MarkLogic shines the spotlight on Big Data Analytics at this year's government summit. Today's information is changing in ways we never anticipated. User generated content, raw data, social media, sensor data and other types of unstructured information are produced at increasing rates, creating an explosion in data volume, velocity, and variety. In short: Big Data. Join us November 16, 2011 as we discuss the following challenges and opportunit...

The 3rd Annual Virtual Conference on Cloud Computing will be hosted online from April 18 - 22, 2011. It is global event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing. Our conference tracks will focus on the following areas: - Cloud for Business, - Technology & Innovation, - Cloud For Public Sector, -...

All projections indicate federal agencies will be awash in increasing amounts of data with greater need to run analytics across the data while ensuring it is indexed, stored, and retrievable for future use. Join us for the Government Big Data Forum on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. to hear from a group of experts as they outline the steps federal agencies should take to rapidly make sense of...