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IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer

Frank Mong, formerÂ senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has beenÂ appointedÂ chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology providerÂ Hortonworks. Mong will overseeÂ Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts,Â according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

by Neel Mehta May 30, 2017, 12:00 am
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Nation Analytics-Celero Team Seeks to Offer Analytics-Based Consulting Service to GovCon Investors

Nation Analytics and Celero Strategies have teamed up to provide a consulting service to investors in the government contracting sector. The service offering combines Nation Analyticsâ€™ intelligence data analytics platforms with Celeroâ€™s consulting support services designed to provide users updates on custom market reports and analyses as well as competitor performance data, Nation Analytics said […] More

by Jane Edwards May 23, 2017, 4:50 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, News, Products & Service

IBM-Nutanix Alliance to Offer Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Enterprise Workloads

IBM and Nutanix have entered into a multi-year partnership agreementÂ to develop and offerÂ an integrated infrastructure system for large enterprise customers to manage workloads. The alliance plans to integrate Nutanix’Â Enterprise Cloud PlatformÂ and IBM’s Power Systems server in an effort to bringÂ new workloads to hyperconverged deployments, IBM said Tuesday. Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey said the joint initiative […] More

by Ramona Adams May 18, 2017, 5:15 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Cybersecurity News, News

Thales Opens Cybersecurity Operation Center in Hong Kong

Thales has established a Hong Kong-based cybersecurity hubÂ in a move to provide continuousÂ cyber surveillance services to customers throughoutÂ Asia. The facility is Thales’ fifth Cybersecurity Operation Center in the world and will support the company’s efforts to help mitigate cyber threats facing government agencies, financial institutions,Â critical infrastructure operators and enterprises in the region, Thales said Thursday. […] More

by Ramona Adams May 12, 2017, 6:51 am
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IBM Researchers Assess Ebola Virus Transmission With Big Data Analytics

IBM researchers have usedÂ 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 withÂ researchersÂ at Montclair State University to release a publication that containsÂ an open-source computational model designed to help study the spread of Ebola from animals to people. Ebola […] More

by Ramona Adams May 8, 2017, 4:18 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Government Cloud, News

AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud

AT&T has agreed with Oracle to migrate thousands of databases and related applications workloads to the latterâ€™s cloud platforms. Oracle said Thursday the strategic agreement with AT&T covers its portfolio of cloud offerings that include platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and database-as-a-service. AT&T will also integrate its big data and machine learning capabilities with Oracleâ€™s Field Service […] More

by Jane Edwards May 5, 2017, 4:30 am
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CenturyLinkâ€™s Glen Post: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Cybersecurity

Glen Post, president and CEO of CenturyLink, told attendees of the NITEC17 conference that public-private partnerships could help advance efforts against cyber threats. “We have found that our trusted partnerships play a critical role in combating the cyber threat, since we all bring different assets, approaches and specialized knowledge to the table,”Â Post said during his […] More

by Jane Edwards April 25, 2017, 6:02 am
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Unveils Initiative for Gov’t Data Accessibility

Steve Ballmer, a former CEO ofÂ Microsoft, has launched an initiative that aims to boost the accessibility of government data on tax revenues, expenditures and spending outcomes. The USAFacts project works to collect data from approximately 130 government statistical databases to create products such as a documentÂ modeled after the 10-K form that companies file with theÂ Securities […] More

by Ramona Adams April 19, 2017, 9:10 am
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IBMâ€™s Sam Gordy: Federal Govt Should Consider Cognitive Intell, Analytics to Process Unstructured Data

Sam Gordy, general manager of IBMâ€™s federal business, has said that federal government leaders should work to target artificial intelligence components such as advanced analytics and cognitive intelligence that work to help facilitate analysis of real-time data. â€œCognitive intelligence and advanced analytics have the ability to mine unstructured data,â€ Gordy told MeriTalk in an interview […] More

by Jane Edwards April 13, 2017, 3:20 am
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NTIS Names Booz Allen a Partner in Federal Data Analysis JV Program

The Commerce Departmentâ€™s National Technical Information Service has named Booz Allen Hamilton one of the 35 primary partners for a joint venture initiative that seeks to help federal agencies access, collect, use and analyze federal data and information services. Booz Allen said Monday it will compete with other private firms, research groups, nonprofit organizations and […] More

by Jane Edwards April 11, 2017, 9:14 am
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DARPA Wants Semantic Tech to Interpret Multimedia Data

TheÂ Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyÂ was scheduled Friday to meet with potential proposers onÂ a program that seeksÂ to aggregate and interpret dataÂ from multiple media sources withÂ a “semantic engine.” DARPA said Thursday theÂ Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives projectÂ aims to buildÂ a platform that will work to general multipleÂ hypotheses on the meaning and implications of real-world events, situations and trends […] More

by Ramona Adams April 10, 2017, 2:50 am
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CenturyLink to Offer EagleForce’s Pharmaceutical Predictive Analytics Tech to Gov’t; Erich Sanchack Comments

CenturyLinkÂ will offer EagleForce Associates‘Â predictive analytics technology forÂ pharmaceuticalÂ monitoring to federal, state and local government agenciesÂ under anÂ exclusive sales and distribution agreement between the two companies. The deal works to expand CenturyLink’s big data analytics portfolio and support government efforts to curb prescription drug waste, fraud and abuse, the company said Tuesday. Erich Sanchack, CenturyLink senior vice president […] More

by Anna Forrester April 4, 2017, 9:30 am