Enlighten IT Consulting has secured a $40 million task order from the U.S. federal government for continued work on a cloud-based architecture that offers storage and retrieval capacity at a rate of more than one trillion records per second. The company said Tuesday the Big Data Platform is designed to ingest and store data from various Defense Department sensors that will be […] More

Informatica has been ranked as a tier-one company in the current offering and market presence categories of Forrester Research’s big data market report. The Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric Q4 2016 recognizes Informatica for the company’s visual and metadata-driven development environment that Forrester says aids in the increase of developer productivity, Informatica said Tuesday. Informatica’s […] More

NTT Data has performed a 12-day field study with the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences to test the capability of big data-based simulation platforms to regulate traffic signals and mitigate traffic congestion in the city of Guiyang in China. NTT Data said Monday it conducted the study with ISCAS from Sept. 19 through Sept. […] More

Microsoft has launched a service offering intended to help customer agencies move huge amounts of data into or out of the company’s blob storage within the Azure Government cloud network. Brenda Lee, a Microsoft program manager, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Azure Import/Export Service offering will work to help government organizations migrate data through shipment of hard […] More

A subsidiary of NCI has received the first task order worth $76.8 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to apply big data and analytics to help detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse among Medicare and Medicaid claims within the Midwestern jurisdiction. The company said July 28 the covered jurisdiction includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. […] More

Joe Ayers heads the federal enterprise group at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as a vice president and is responsible for the organization’s work with partners, pursuit of cloud computing opportunities and work to provide agencies technology and related consulting services. The enterprise services segment of HPE is slated to merge into Computer Sciences Corp. and create an estimated […] More

In-Q-Tel has signed a strategic investment and partnership agreement with Databricks in a push to help the San Francisco, California-based technology firm deploy an open-source big data processing engine to U.S. intelligence agencies. IQT said Tuesday Databricks’ Apache Spark platform is powered by cloud technology and designed for enterprise users to analyze huge amounts of data, integrate disparate information silos and gain insights […] More

The National Archives and Records Administration agency has awarded a potential five-year, $17.3 million contract to Project Performance Company for operations and maintenance work on two NARA systems built to manage large amounts of data. PPC said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s efforts to develop, modernize and update its Description and Authority Service and National Archives Catalog systems that work to […] More

Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp., has said large volumes of data driven by the adoption of Internet-of-Things-based devices can bring societal changes and improve people’s lives when used correctly, Fedscoop reported Thursday. Billy Mitchell writes Tanner made the remarks at the Hitachi Data Systems Social Innovation Summit in Washington Thursday. […] More

Charles River Analytics has been awarded a $400,000 contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a multi-source naval analytics and analytic services framework for warfighting environments as part of the Navy‘s branch-wide tactical cloud computing project. The Navy is developing its Tactical Cloud Reference Implementation to create on-demand access for shared sensors and computing resources, Charles River said Wednesday. […] More

SAS has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Department, Small Business Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide technology platforms that will work to help the agencies examine huge amounts of data. The company said Monday agencies are increasingly adopting big data analytics, visualization, text mining and Hadoop technologies to help address their data collection, storage and management […] More

Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have partnered in a bid to help government clients manage risks associated with big data through the companies’ information governance strategy. Patrick Gallagher, a vice president at Carahsoft, wrote in an article published Wednesday that information governance refers to technologies and functions that organizations implement in order to obtain value from […] More