Is Hadoop the death of data warehousing?
To what extent is big data changing the traditional data analytics landscape?
NCI cracks open cancer research by moving it to the cloud
The agency is looking for cloud-based architectures to give cancer researchers complete bioinformatics infrastructure as a service, with built-in compute, storage, security and analytics.
Amazon Kinesis does heavy-lifting on streaming, big data
Kinesis lets users easily set up high-capacity network pipes that can collect and analyze data in real time, at any scale, officials said.
In 2014, big data technology goes mainstream — and real-time
The big data ecosystem of tools will continue to evolve as government managers seek faster access to data and advanced analytics.
DataViva tools give power to the people over open data
An team of MIT Media Lab professors and Brazilian economic policymakers partner on data visualization tools designed to help ordinary citizens mine government’s open data.
NASA moves earth science tools, platform to the cloud
OpenNEX puts data and tools from NASA's Earth Exchange into the Amazon cloud improve collaboration with the academic, public and private sectors.
Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D
The Commonwealth teams up with universities and high tech firms to launch a cloud marketplace geared to sharing compute capacity and services.
How Sacramento's electric utility powered up smart-grid data
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District upgraded its power distribution system with smart technology, but needed a way to make sense of all of the data being generated.
Small town gets big results with data warehouse, analytics
Using SAS Analytics, city officials from Cary, N.C., monitor budgets across departments, improve police efficiency and track customer service goals.
New E-Verify security enhancement helps deter employee fraud
The Citizenship and Immigration Services has enhanced the Homeland Security Department's E-Verify system by using analytics to flag and 'lock' Social Security Numbers that have been used fraudulently.
Next big things in big data: Visualization, knowledge clouds, fast clusters
The open-source cluster computing tool called Spark speeds programming and can run up to 100 times faster than Hadoop Map Reduce.
Big data parking lot: Tools for fast storage, retrieval and integration
Hadoop is a must-have big data tool, but it has some drawbacks, including the need for high-level user expertise and conditions for optimal bandwidth.
Essential big data tools for government
Public-sector priorities: a strong IT foundation and tools for prepping data.
How data virtualization can help government hone services and cut costs
The move to open data policies are spawning new approaches of data virtualization to exploit and manage an expanding number of government information sources.
Cloud as a Brain gets real ... so let the AI race begin!
The announcement by IBM that it would add Watson-like technologies as a cloud service signals the beginning of a race to build the brainiest cloud.
Flash memory boosts big data workloads
Fusion-io and Sqrrl improve big data workload efficiency with flash memory, providing significantly more performance at less cost than high-density DRAM systems, the companies say.
As big data grows, technologies evolve into ecosystems
Big data platforms, both proprietary and open source, emerge as comprehensive solutions to handle magnitude, complexity and variety of data.
Energy lab's Catalyst could spur next-gen of HPC clusters
Livermore, Intel and Cray are deploying the uniquely designed Catalyst to explore new frontiers in HPC simulation and big data innovation.
Enterprise architects should be in thick of system design, emerging tech
Architects must show how their system designs operate in the field as agencies tackle big data, cloud and mobility issues.
4 real-world takeaways from ELC
At the 2013 Executive Leadership Conference, industry and government leaders called for practices that could cut costs and show returns.
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