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One thing has become increasingly clear: Automation for analysts has too frequently violated principles we humans expect from our IT. We expect that IT will exist to make our lives and missions easier and in too many cases IT actually complicates the workflow and reduces the contribution of analysts to missions. Computers are important, and [...]
Intelligence commands throughout government have been buying and integrating capabilities for years. Organizations seek similar platform elements, resulting in many similar solutions. Solutions usually leverage high performance low-cost/commodity hardware, reliable operating systems, linkages to distributed data sources, an ability to index those data sources, tools to correlate and extract data from those indexes, and of [...]
Federal agencies embracing the cloud computing concepts of elasticity, smart provisioning, enhanced functionality, increased security and improved agility have been improving their use of IT. Concepts like public clouds and private clouds are in the mix of solutions and are already adding value to discussions. But there are some cautions to be aware of. Cloud Computing [...]
Upcoming Events Akamai Webcast: Establishing the Groundwork for Your Agency’s IPv6 Transition April 12, 2011 Brightcove Webcast: Streaming Video Beyond Your Website and YouTube April 13, 2011 Jive Event: New Way Tour – Washington, DC April 13, 2011 Adobe Government Solutions: Going Digital: Using E-Forms and Online Applications to Improve Agency Processes Jackson Marriott, Jackson, [...]
Thetus Corporations’ Savanna provides excellent search, discovery and visualization tools for analysts. Savanna uses tools such as Kapow to scrape websites and all-source data and then pushes them through MetaCarta (for geo-spatial analysis) and Janya (for real-language textual analysis). This data is then sorted into a Savanna’s application – enabling real-time search. Savanna is excellent [...]
Cloudera provides a distribution of the Hadoop data management platform known as CDH (Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop). CDH is a comprehensive platform that significantly accelerates deployment of Apache Hadoop. It also provides critical capabilities designed to make Hadoop more useful in the enterprise. Here are some of the features of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution: HDFS – Self healing distributed [...]
For enterprises, capabilities are required that serve behind the corporate firewall and can securely pull in information and people-to-people connections from outside the enterprise. One of these stands out above all others, Jive Software. Jive Social Business Software (SBS) establishes a trusted online environment with appropriate controls that leverages social media and community software for [...]
Endeca remains the most disruptive capability in the search and discovery field today. They provide capabilities to users including ways to find information needed without having to know exactly what to look for. Endeca provides a platform for search applications that enables more than 250 million users around the globe to access information quickly and [...]
MetaCarta provides a means to identify and leverage the geographic references in content. Most government organizations have many millions of documents in digital form including reports, message traffic, briefings and Web pages. More than 70% of the documents have significant geographic references. Geosearch: Find all content, data, and information about a place in a single [...]
NuWave Solutions builds frameworks, frees data for consumption, and works visualization and user interfaces in ways that serve and support enterprise missions and their users. They work with existing enterprise data and applications and deliver capabilities that just blow your mind. They provide visionary ideas and then execute on them fast. For more on NuWave see: http://www.nuwavesolutions.com [...]
Akamai (Pronounced ack-ah-my) is a cloud computing company with over ten years of experience. In fact, Akamai provides video delivery and content downloads to many high-profile organizations already. It’s highly distributed network is made of computers in data-centers around the world. By having presences across the earth, Akamai makes sure that content is delivered locally, [...]
MarkLogic Server is a purpose-built database for unstructured information. It uses xml documents internally for modeling data and storing content. Organizations use MarkLogic to discover information and identify relationships that were previously unknown by standardizing data intakes, performing document classification, and arranging data structures for tokenizing, proximity, boolean, and relevance algorithms. MarkLogic can also track [...]