Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of public sector at Hortonworks, has said cultural shift is one of the factors that drive the evolution of big data storage. Bierweiler told FedScoop in an interview published Tuesday that he observed data was previously used in a “transactional” manner but has now become crucial to decision-making. “We like to say that […] More

Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, will participate in a MeriTalk-hosted webcast on federal big data management to be held on Wednesday. He will discuss with federal and industry executives big data leadership, strategies related to big data management and the impact of big data on agencies’ modernization programs, MeriTalk said Thursday. Davies, an […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of public sector at Hortonworks, has said local and state government agencies should adopt open-source technology platforms to handle large volumes of data, StateScoop reported Wednesday. Bierweiler said big data management tools based on open-source work to help government leaders gain access to intelligence data and analytics needed to carry out […] More

Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the U.S. government acknowledges the need to leverage big data analytics, machine learning, automation and other commercial technology platforms in order to help transform the intelligence community and global mapping efforts. Frazier wrote in a blog post published Friday that government leaders such as Robert Cardillo, director […] More

CAE looks to use big data analytics to optimize its future flight simulators and address training challenges that students face, AIN Online reported Saturday. Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and security group, said at the 2017 Paris Air Show that data from mission playbacks can be analyzed to determine particular maneuvers, procedures or exercises where students […] More

Hortonworks and ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary have teamed up to offer big data analytics in an appliance-like or as-a-service deployment. The joint offering integrates Ascolta’s analytics platform with the Hortonworks Data Platform to provide support for federal, state and local agencies as well as commercial organizations, Ascolta said Thursday. “As data volume dramatically increases, organizations need access to tools that allow […] More

DigitalGlobe and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates have entered an agreement to make data from MDA’s RADARSAT-2 satellite available via DigitalGlobe’s GBDX geospatial big data platform. The partnership intends to make new GBDX uses possible through the integration of optical and radar satellite data, DigitalGlobe said Monday. The RADARSAT-2 satellite works to collect synthetic aperture radar data to help users see Earth […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked five organizations to create computing platforms designed to analyze and extract insights from large volumes of data. Intel, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Georgia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop “graph analytics processors” under the Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program, DARPA said Friday. The HIVE program […] More

IBM researchers have used big data analytics to evaluate the impact of infected animal carriers in the spread of the Ebola virus among humans. The company said Friday it partnered with researchers at Montclair State University to release a publication that contains an open-source computational model designed to help study the spread of Ebola from animals to people. Ebola […] More

Microsoft has added two big data and visualization tools to the company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Tom Keane, a Microsoft general manager, wrote in a blog post published Monday the HDInsight and Power BI offerings are designed to help government agencies manage, analyze and visualize huge quantities of data in Azure. He said HDInsight works to help users build data and […] More

DigitalGlobe has added three new companies to its roster of partners and customers that use the satellite imagery provider’s geospatial big data analytics platform. Lockheed Martin, PrecisionHawk and Video Inform are among the companies that joined DigitalGlobe’s GBDX ecosystem or extended their commitments in the fourth quarter of 2016, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. Lockheed uses GBDX in an effort to create commercial […] More

Cloud-based data analytics provider NetComm has signed up for the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal Big Data Test Lab in a push to help the government address challenges through data and analytics technology. NetComm said Wednesday the ATARC Federal Big Data Test Lab program will work to provide preconfigured data and analytics tools to government agencies […] More