USASpending takes big data to the cloud
The General Services Administration's USASpending.gov website is using the GCE Big Data and Analytics Cloud for storing and managing large volumes of data.
Mother Nature chases Mass. town into the cloud
After tornadoes ripped through nearby Springfield, the technology director of Dedham decided it was time to move data backup and recovery to the cloud.
Closing big-data R&D gaps
The federal government's big-data initiative fills key research and development gaps where industry fears to tread.
Energy project looks to tame supercomputing's tsunami of data
A new facility at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory will develop tools to extract knowledge from petabytes of data and help researchers use their time more efficiently.
Keys to big data in the brain, not the computer, former NSA exec says
Visualization and analytics will require cultural anthropologists and social scientists to help organizations understand how humans process information.
Crash analytics: How data can help eliminate highway deaths
Highway safety groups' strategy, called Toward Zero Deaths, is ambitious, but data analytics combined with the "Four Es" make it possible.
Former FBI cyber cop: Hunt the hacker, not the hack
Shawn Henry, former head of FBI's cyber crime team, says private-sector networks lack adequate defenses and require the same level of intelligence available to government networks.
The path to outsmarting advanced cyberattacks
Analytics tools are available to detect attack patterns, but agencies need to take a few steps before gaining the confidence to act on the intelligence they provide.
Energy lab releases open-source tool for tracking cyberattacks
Hone, a tool being developed at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, links network traffic with an application, making it easier to find the source of an IT compromise.
Transparency group supports DATA Act, standardized reporting tools
The Data Transparency Coalition will lobby for passage of the DATA Act, which would make the Recovery.gov website a permanent portal for standardized reporting on all government spending.
Integrated services? The cloud alone isn't enough.
Agencies will need to deploy cloud and service-oriented architectures together to achieve integrated services and greater information exchange across agencies and organizations, government and industry experts say.
Big data's target: Users
Government should follow the private sector's lead in making use of big data but focus on improving performance and efficiency "with less effort and pain," GSA's Dave McClure told a Washington audience.
White House launches $200M 'Big Data R&D' initiative
Six agencies, with more to follow, will work on ways to dig pertinent information out of the growing mountains of data.
Government cloud gets personal -- and Siri-ous
When the government cloud meets the burgeoning consumer cloud, service to the citizen should look more like Siri to the citizen.
Don't look now, but everybody (CIA, DHS, etc.) is watching
As social media analytics improves, the intelligence community and other agencies are monitoring the traffic on popular sites. But could they put privacy at risk?
SAS' analytics software can extend big data's reach
Visual Analytics lets users analyze and visualize massive amounts of data in near-real time and share with others via the Web or iPad (and soon, Android) devices.
Microsoft donates image-matching tools to fight child porn trafficking
Microsoft will provide law enforcement agencies free image-matching tools to track and locate child porn traffickers.
Harvesting your data? Suit alleges there are lots of apps doing that.
A class-action lawsuit filed in an Austin, Texas, court the week of March 12 alleges some of the most-downloaded mobile apps are stealing personal information without users' knowledge. Just who is responsible? There are some pretty well known names, including but not limited to Facebook, Apple and Twitter.
How cloud can improve intell community's analyses
Cloud computing could revolutionize the intelligence community's analytical and big data processing capabilities, according to an INSA white paper.
Wolfram Alpha Pro runs rings around today's search engines
More concierge than search engine, Wolfram Alpha Pro will analyze a query, perform high-end math calculations and even analyze images.
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