HP creates HAVEn big data platform from several acquisitions

HP has combined the technologies that it's picked up through its acquisitions to provide a big data offering called HAVEn.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Software group warns against privacy fears

Privacy fears have the potential to stifle big data's potential, and a software industry group is warning against strict regulations that would arrest big data's development.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Big data could predict cyber attacks

Big data can play a large role in fighting cybersecurity events by helping to predict when events will occur, but challenges remain.

  • By Washington Technology staff

CIA invests in analytics firm

In-Q-Tel investment in Narrative Science shows continued interest in tools that can mine vast amounts of data.

  • By Washington Technology staff

IBM creates chief innovation officer for federal business

Jane Snowdon brings her research skills and Smart Cities experience to IBM federal as the group's first chief innovation officer. What will be her focus?

  • By Nick Wakeman

What the Amazon-IBM battle says about the market

IBM's protest of Amazon's CIA cloud computing contract is about more than just two companies squaring off over a $600 million contract. It's about a new player in the market, and a shift in what the government expects from its contractors.

  • By Nick Wakeman

China increasingly interested in big data

The Chinese government has expressed interest in increasing its big data capabilities, and many Chinese firms have followed suit, incorporating big data into their strategies.

  • By Washington Technology staff

GE sees big data as big opportunity

General Electric sees big data as a great opportunity for its business because of how much money it could save its customers.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Too much data collection could lead to misconduct

Data on consumer behavior is very valuable to companies who collect it, but it's also very attractive to other businesses and governments, presenting a privacy concern, ZDNet reports.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Big data could help more accurately predict weather

Big data is the future of forecasting; using it could help prevent or temper disasters like Superstorm Sandy or the recent devastating tornado that hit Moore, Okla.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Do you have critical big data skills?

Big data has everybody feeling good about the future of technology, but the truth is, only a few professionals actually have the technical "know how" to make use of it. Which skills are hiring managers looking for when it comes to big data?

  • By Washington Technology staff

DISA cancels sole-source data storage contract

DISA has reopened competition for a sole-source contract that calls for the development of a big data cloud service.

  • By Washington Technology staff
Opinion

The noise surrounding LPTA, sequestration masks a deeper shift in the market

In this exclusive analysis, Washington Technology explores how the noise surrounding lowest price contracting and budget cuts are disguising a profound shift in the market. In part one of a two-part series, industry expert Jim Kane explores how this shift impacts contractors and the risks they take on in their government projects.

  • By Jim Kane

15 small-biz teams win $22B DHS Eagle 2 awards

Fifteen companies will compete for task orders under the $22 billion DHS Eagle 2 contract to provide IT program support services such as strategic planning, enterprise architecture and data management. We breakdown the winners and their teammates.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Crowdsourcing as disease fighter

Because of the information that can be gleaned by using big data, it is helping eradicate diseases by giving researchers more data to work with, and to learn from.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Digitize your paper documents, use it as big data

Paper documents are still important to businesses, but in the era of emerging big data, these documents would be better off digitized, as they would fit together with the way companies use big data, and will lower costs and increase efficiency.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Twitter acquires big data startup

Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a company with an engine called TopicWatch, which can sift through unstructured data of any given kind, and pull out information, as well as summarize its content in real time.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Inside the engine that mines Twitter

Datasift evolved its RSS analytics offering into a social media big data analytics tool that can mine Twitter and Facebook and deliver intelligence to its customers.

  • By Mark Hoover

Splunk, Cloudera team to take big data across the enterprise

Splunk and Cloudera have teamed up to offer big data across its enterprise, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • By Washington Technology staff

HR ripe candidate for big data use

Because of all of the people data that human resources has already collected, it's in a good position to begin using big data, which will help it make better decisions about its business.

  • By Washington Technology staff
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