By Bob Gourley MarkLogic has announced a 9 May webinar featuring Chris Biow, CTO of MarkLogic, in an overview on lessons learned, tips and techniques designed to accelerate fielding of Hadoop-based solutions. Their invite is below: Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still strugglingRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Ron Yaggi, IO’s SVP of Federal stopped by our office last week. He sat down for a podcast with us, which is posted here. We have outlined the discussion in this post. Ron gave us some insight into his 27 year Air Force career, while he traveled widely on various assignments, heRead… Read more »
By ChrisScott DoD’s mission will continue to evolve and shift to counter the tactics and intents of our enemies. One day it’s the terrorism inflicted by al Qaeda, the next it’s possible nuclear Armageddon from North Korea, and then the next day it shifts to probable chemical weapons in Syria. Who knows what tomorrow willRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley I noticed a nice post on the website of the United States Army today titled: “Army’s ‘Coral Reef’ intelligence analysis software among ‘Top 5′ technologies of 2012.” I was happy to read about the success of this capability, one of many being fielded by the DCGS-A program. The following is from theRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cybersecurity news and stories of the day. Facebook used as billboard for malware – “A cybercriminal has taken to selling his malware and related services on Facebook, boldly choosing a public forum to reach potential customers over the secretive world of the online underground.” This is a boldRead… Read more »
By Carsten Eilers HTML5 brings new opportunities – for developers and for attackers. Here you will see two examples of how an attacker could abuse HTML5 and how you as a developer could prevent this (or not). These are only two of many new or improved attacks on web clients. I chose them for twoRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley In-Q-Tel just posted a press release on a recent strategic partnership and technology development agreement with a firm called Apigee. That statement alone is all the savvy technologist needs to know to start diving into Apigee. In-Q-Tel has a reputation for applying lots of focused thought into the firms they invest inRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley I really hope to see you at the 7 May 2013 Cloudera Session in DC. This event is loaded with lessons learned, advice and information you can use to reduce risk in your big data solution deployments. Here is more from our last post on the event. Check out the agenda andRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley As the saying goes, you should not believe everything you think. Actually, maybe a better saying is, don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. A recent study by a firm with a nice website and a long list of politicians as advisors has just published a study that says the USRead… Read more »
By BobGourley Friends at Coversant have just released a new white paper capturing use cases, architecture, and lessons learned of their next generation communications and collaboration platform, SoapBox Server. This system is the key to deploying scalable, fast, highly interoperable, secure communications services. You can download the Coversant paper here: SoapBox: A Platform To PowerRead… Read more »