Big Data & Analytics News

Intelligent systems developer Charles River Analytics has introduced an open-source programming language for developers to create probabilistic models and reasoning algorithms. Figaro 2.0 was developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Probabilistic and Relational Inferences in Dynamic Environments program and is designed to derive conclusions from available evidence, Charles River said Monday. Avi Pfeffer, […] More

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and Infoscitex will compete for task orders to perform research and development work in areas of warfighter lethality and combat survivability for the Air Force under a potential six-year, $60.1 million contract. The Air Force Research Laboratory received three offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as the 711th Human Performance Wing pushes to use […] More

Raytheon has signed a cooperative agreement with PASSUR Aerospace to jointly develop analytics-based tools for airline, airport and control tower operators to manage air traffic data. The alliance seeks to combine Raytheon’s ATM systems and PASSUR’s decision support software that is built with business intelligence and predictive analytics technology, Raytheon said Monday. “We are using […] More

Carahsoft Technology will offer public sector customers and partners access to Datawatch‘s visual data discovery products through a General Services Administration contracting vehicle. Carahsoft said Monday that Datawatch’s tools work to access and analyze volumes of data from different sources in a visual data discovery environment and are built to help users identify problems, patterns and trends. […] More

BAE Systems will offer a big data storage system originally developed for government and military agencies to commercial customers. TeraStar is built to store large amounts of data gathered from sensors and be compatible with different types of storage media devices, BAE said Monday. “We originally developed the TeraStar data storage system to fit the […] More

Cyber awareness in corporations is on the rise and they need tools to help with the decision making process in case a cyber attack occurs, Software AG executives Bill Lochten and Chris Steel said to On The Frontlines magazine. Government senior officials, mission leaders and information technology professionals need real-time insight into the important aspects of their […] More

ViON has a Hadoop-based cyber tool for information technology systems management that Rodney Hite, product manager for big data solutions, said is built to address threats to the big data architecture landscape. The company’s Big Cyber Security platform combines big data technology with traditional methods used to protect information assets and is intended to mitigate […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts that the market for big data platforms worldwide will grow at a compound annual rate of 25.52 percent to $46.34 billion by 2018. The report provides an analysis of big data market trends by product and service type, by region and by vertical segment, the market research and consulting firm said […] More

LexisNexis and the U.K. government’s archival organization will collaborate to develop tools and methodologies for maintaining, analyzing and interpreting volumes of legislative articles, Legal Futures reported Friday. The Big Data for Law project’s goal to give U.K. professionals access to computing systems and services when undertaking legal research work, according to the article. Legal Futures […] More

MarkLogic Corp. and Datawatch have forged a strategic partnership to combine technologies in an effort to help customers gain value from big data. The companies will also collaborate to form a center of excellence. where services resulting from the partnership will be demonstrated, Datawatch said Wednesday. Gary Bloom, president and CEO of MarkLogic, said the company’s NoSQL […] More