NSA's intell gathering puts the spotlight on metadata
Metadata is valuable for extracting knowledge from smaller subsets of data for intelligence-gathering as well as for energy, weather and public safety research, experts say.
Agencies hot for big data, but plans, resources are lacking
Big data can save government $500 billion with the right technology in place, but most IT execs say their agencies lack an adequate strategy, a MeriTalk survey finds.
Energy lab team explores new ways of analyzing social media
The SALSA tool developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory taps the lab's supercomputing power to pore over billions of posts in seconds.
NYC opens the books, and the source code, on Checkbook 2.0
Other government organizations can use the code to build sites similar to Checkbook, which employs graphs and user-friendly tables to display up-to-date information on the city's finances.
NIST, DHS push security automation to the next stage
SCAP sets standards to ensure products work together, while Einstein is evolving into an automated tool that will not only detect, but block, malicious code.
NIH looking to build an online biomedical catalog
The agency is looking for ways to search, cite and link to research data, similar to the way PubMed handles scientific publications.
Why NSA will have the capacity for all that data it's collecting
The agency gets ready to fire up the world's third largest data center, with zettabytes of capacity, as it begins work on another new high-performance center.
The next 5 years: Everything converges and rides in the cloud
Big data, analytics, mobile computing and social media will blend together, with services doled out by cloud brokers.
5 years down the road: The cloud of clouds
Interoperability standards will create a world of interconnected clouds fraught with opportunities and security risks, experts say.
NOAA works satellite triage to keep hurricane tracking healthy
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration activates back-up satellite to keep storm spotlight steady as hurricane season nears.
Internet2, Microsoft pact fuels universities' big data research
A peering arrangement gives schools fast access to Microsoft cloud services, offering improved collaboration, the ability to quickly exchange large data sets and faster app development.
Tracking the evolution of big data: A timeline
Big data's roots run deep. Here's a look at key events over the past 30 years that have affected the way data is collected, managed and analyzed and that help explain why big data is such a big deal today.
DISA to try again for big data cloud storage
The Defense Information Systems Agency cancels a sole-source contract for advanced large data object cloud services after drawing industry interest.
Software quizzes applicants before doling out benefits
Florida's Department of Children and Families is using LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which creates a profile based on customer-supplied information, to authenticate people applying for public assistance.
5 keys to getting big data under control
Commerce Department CIO offers insights on how to think about big data in ways that will keep its challenges down to size.
What's hot at FOSE 2013
The annual conference and expo kicks off Tuesday, tackling the key challenges facing the public-sector IT community.
Google puts decades of Earth's changes into time-lapse animation
Google Earth Engine collects and converts millions of Landsat images from USGS into a picture of how the Earth's surface has changed.
Cray unveils a supercomputer for the rest of us
The XC30-AC systems start at $500,000 and offer speeds ranging from 22 to 176 teraflops.
New techniques behind Energy's plan for exascale computing
Scientists at the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Lab are working toward building an exascale computer that by 2020 could be powerful enough to model the human brain, cell by cell.
Emerging protocol can help manage the Internet of Things
MQTT, proposed as an OASIS standard, can help agencies manage all the data generated by sensors, mobile devices and other machine-to-machine networks.
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