By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Federal Agency Demands, Competition Challenge Cloud Vendors – After IBM protested the CIA’s cloud services award to Amazon Web Services, the GAO has found key deficiencies. Apparently, the CIA “failed to evaluate prices comparably under one of the contract’s pricing scenarios[.]”Read… Read more »
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Request Your Inputs For A Coming CTOvision Piece on Impact of Cloudera Impala, Search and CDH releases
By Bob Gourley We are beginning to formulate assessments on the potential impact to the federal technology community of some recent developments we believe will have far-reaching and positive impact. Over the last quarter Cloudera has continued to announce strategic partnerships, improvements to their open source technology integrations, and new capabilities that will improve theRead… Read more »
Is Government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy more like ‘Cloud When?’ – Plus the DorobekINSIDER’s 7 stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: More than 20 million people each week sit down to watch Sheldon Cooper and his group of brainiacs search for answers to life’s most challenging puzzles on the Big Bang Theory. Those big brains are just what the government needs to stay on the front lines of research and innovation. ButRead… Read more »
Commerce Wants Cloud-Based CRM
The Commerce Department wants its agencies to have a cloud-based system that would work to keep online information updated for citizens, Nextgov reported Monday. Joseph Marks writes the department intends to replace current software in its offices to comply with government mandates for federal departments to utilize new tools for storing and sharing data. MarksRead… Read more »
Cloudera and Platfora Leveraged to Address Hard Challenge: What do “they” know about my network?
By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This guest post by Wayne Wheeles focuses on a topic I’ve struggled with for over a 15 years and shows great promise in addressing challenges no one else has tackled. Wayne is a Network Forensics Analytic/Enrichment Developer at Six3 Systems. – bg For a decade now, many Network Forensics Analysts,Read… Read more »
DSB Report on Cyber Security and Reliability in a Digital Cloud
By Bob Gourley Note: we previous summarized and pointed you to a closely related DSB report on Resilient Military Systems and the Cyber Threat. These two studies are related and the study teams held some joint meetings to help ensure the best possible recommendations for the department. The DSB Report on Cyber Security and ReliabilityRead… Read more »
National Archives Moves to the Cloud
Known as the country’s record keeper (and my favorite place to bring D.C. visitors) the U.S. National Archives Records Administration (NARA) protects and provides public access to more than 10 billion pages of textual records, maps, photographs, videos and more than 133 terabytes of electronic records. Needless to say, that is a lot of informationRead… Read more »
Guest Blog: Sequestration and the Cloud
(This post was provided by Praveen Asthana, Chief Marketing Office of Gravitant, a cloud service brokerage and management company) Sequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household vocabulary in 2013. It got our attention because the impact of it is $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts from the Federal budget over the next tenRead… Read more »
GovDelivery Awarded G-Cloud III Framework Contract
By Kathy Kyle, Digital Communications Consultant at GovDelivery GovDelivery was recently awarded a G-Cloud III framework contract for its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based solutions, making it easier for government to reach more people. G-Cloud III is important as it continues to enable UK public sector departments and organisations to easily access centrally negotiated deals and transactRead… Read more »
Carahsoft Sponsors 15 May Webinar with Josh Wills of Cloudera
By Bob Gourley Training a New Generation of Data Scientists Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Time: 2pm Eastern; 11am Pacific Duration: 1 Hour Data scientists, the professionals who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer, are in demand like never before. This scarcity of talent drives organizations and agencies to ensure that their dataRead… Read more »