By RyanKamauff On Jan 24, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Vice Director, Naval RADM David G Simpson, spoke at the AFCEA Central Maryland Luncheon. He discussed the benefits of collocation with NSA and USCYBERCOM at Fort Meade, a look at DoD’s readiness, and focused on the Joint Information Environment, the future of DoD informationRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DOD, VA improve eBenefits portal – The eBenefits self-service portal has been updated. This portal allows service members and vets unparalleled access to information and services. It allows users to get into compensation services, even populated the information from their VA records.Read… Read more »
By HudsonHollister [This post by Hudson Hollister is cross-posted on the Data Transparency Coalition’s blog.] Last Tuesday Columbia Business School’s Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis released a definitive report evaluating the implementation of a structured data format for the financial statements that public companies file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Read… Read more »
By BobGourley These are the technology events we are tracking at CTOvision.com, either because we plan on attending and reporting on these events, or because we are speaking at them, or because we thought they would be of high enough interest to our readers to warrant their inclusion here. The up to date list canRead… Read more »
By BobGourley Gartner projects that by 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data. Sounds rational/logical/realistic to me. Sounds like the entire reason everyone in the federal space has been moving towards open source Apache Hadoop/CDH based solutions (including new interest in Impala) as a keyRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff The recent quarterly financials from both Google and Apple are stunning. Google has revenues of $14.42B in this quarter, while Apple had revenues of $54.5B. Google returned earnings per share of $8.62 and $13.81 for Apple. Apple’s numbers did fall short of Wall Street’s expectations; however, they exceeded their own. Google’s showing 36Read… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Pebble smartwatches begin shipping to backers this afternoon, iOS app still pending – The Pebble smartwatch was a huge Kickstarter success story, so much so that they did not know how to deal with the popularity. They are manufacturing 500 units aRead… Read more »
By Ray Muslimani Editor’s note: This guest post provides context on mission focused data analytics in the federal space by one of the leaders of the federal big data movement, Ray Muslimani. -bg 2012 will go down as a “Big” year for Big Data in the public sector. Rhetoric and hype has been followed byRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. A startup emerges to use wireless mesh and the cloud to fight energy theft – A Canadian startup called “Awesense” is looking to cut down on energy theft. This theft can occur from people tapping directly into high-voltage wires and using theRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. College Student Expelled After Bringing Web Vulnerability to School’s Attention – After two computer science students found an exploit in the Omnivox Web Portal, they brought it to the attention of the authorities. However, a few days later, one of the studentsRead… Read more »