An Update on Liquid Robotics
January 20, 2012 By bobgourley
Image via CrunchBase Liquid Robotics, a company formed by CEO Bill Vass, is making huge inroads in sensor deployments in some of the most difficult to monitor parts of our planet. That is, the vast, open ocean. Liquid Robotics has developed a maritime robot that can travel thousands of miles, carry [More here]
Big Data Success in Government
January 20, 2012 By bobgourley
On January 19, Carahsoft hosted a webinar on Big Data success in government with Bob Gourley and Omer Trajman of Cloudera. Bob began by explaining the current state of Big Data in the government. There are 4 areas of significant activity in Big Data. Federal integrators are making large investments in [More here]
FedCyber Webinar: The Security Development Lifecycle
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
On Friday, 16 December, Michael Howard hosted a webinar for FedCyber on the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Howard is Microsoft’s Principal Security Architect with nearly 20 years of experience in the field and literally wrote the book on SDL, a topic that keeps growing more relevant. This year, the federal government put into [More here]
Google TV – You should buy it, just not yet…
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
Google TV is headed to your living room, whether you like it or not I recently purchased the Logitech Revue with Google TV. I absolutely love it. It’s one of the coolest ways to interact with TV to date, and offers the best overall interface for digesting internet streams as well. [More here]
From Networks to Swarms
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
CTOs , CIOs, and technology reporters are very familiar with the idea of the network. Think of networks and tech and the terms network-centric warfare, netwar, social networks, the wealth of networks, and a host of other terms and ideas immediately roll off the tongue. The network is the defining [More here]
What You Need To Know About FedRAMP
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program established in December 2011 to speed the adoption of cloud computing. FedRAMP includes a set of requirements for federal cloud computing and universal procedures for approving services and providers to work with the government. When contractors feel that [More here]
Splunk is Going Public
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
Big Data solutions company Splunk has just filed to go public and is looking to raise $125 million in IPO. Splunk, which will list under the symbol SPLK, collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated by enterprise applications and devices. It makes this data, which can be [More here]
2011 in Cybersecurity
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
2011 was a watershed year for cybersecurity, but it was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Political hacking, industrial skullduggery, drones gone wild, and mobile malware all made 2011 a year, to borrow CrucialPoint amigo Matt Devost‘s phrase (since I’m already borrowing his image for the post graphic, why not?), to live [More here]
What you’re missing at CES 2012
January 19, 2012 By bobgourley
CES is the place to be this week…or is it? Since @BobGourley won’t send me to CES, I have to constantly monitor my Twitter feed and all of the technology sites. But, we have curated what we believe are the top stories (and will keep updating) to provide you with what [More here]
Cloudera and Carahsoft Webinar: Big Data Success in Government 19 Jan 2012
Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar on Big Data in the federal space. The following is from their announcement site: Join us as we describe big data technologies including Apache Hadoop and how government organizations have been successfully deploying these technologies. We will discuss the fundamentals of Hadoop and [More here]
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An Update on Liquid Robotics
Image via CrunchBase Liquid Robotics, a company formed by CEO Bill Vass, is making huge inroads in sensor deployments in some of the most difficult to monitor parts of our planet. That is, the vast, open ocean. Liquid Robotics has developed a maritime robot that can travel thousands of miles, carry [More here]
Big Data Success in Government
On January 19, Carahsoft hosted a webinar on Big Data success in government with Bob Gourley and Omer Trajman of Cloudera. Bob began by explaining the current state of Big Data in the government. There are 4 areas of significant activity in Big Data. Federal integrators are making large investments in [More here]
FedCyber Webinar: The Security Development Lifecycle
On Friday, 16 December, Michael Howard hosted a webinar for FedCyber on the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Howard is Microsoft’s Principal Security Architect with nearly 20 years of experience in the field and literally wrote the book on SDL, a topic that keeps growing more relevant. This year, the federal government put into [More here]
Google TV – You should buy it, just not yet…
Google TV is headed to your living room, whether you like it or not I recently purchased the Logitech Revue with Google TV. I absolutely love it. It’s one of the coolest ways to interact with TV to date, and offers the best overall interface for digesting internet streams as well. [More here]
From Networks to Swarms
CTOs , CIOs, and technology reporters are very familiar with the idea of the network. Think of networks and tech and the terms network-centric warfare, netwar, social networks, the wealth of networks, and a host of other terms and ideas immediately roll off the tongue. The network is the defining [More here]
What You Need To Know About FedRAMP
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program established in December 2011 to speed the adoption of cloud computing. FedRAMP includes a set of requirements for federal cloud computing and universal procedures for approving services and providers to work with the government. When contractors feel that [More here]
Splunk is Going Public
Big Data solutions company Splunk has just filed to go public and is looking to raise $125 million in IPO. Splunk, which will list under the symbol SPLK, collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated by enterprise applications and devices. It makes this data, which can be [More here]
2011 in Cybersecurity
2011 was a watershed year for cybersecurity, but it was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Political hacking, industrial skullduggery, drones gone wild, and mobile malware all made 2011 a year, to borrow CrucialPoint amigo Matt Devost‘s phrase (since I’m already borrowing his image for the post graphic, why not?), to live [More here]
What you’re missing at CES 2012
CES is the place to be this week…or is it? Since @BobGourley won’t send me to CES, I have to constantly monitor my Twitter feed and all of the technology sites. But, we have curated what we believe are the top stories (and will keep updating) to provide you with what [More here]
Cloudera and Carahsoft Webinar: Big Data Success in Government 19 Jan 2012
Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar on Big Data in the federal space. The following is from their announcement site: Join us as we describe big data technologies including Apache Hadoop and how government organizations have been successfully deploying these technologies. We will discuss the fundamentals of Hadoop and [More here]
Consume CTOVision on your Apple iPhone or iPad or Android Phone or Tablet with Google Currents
Ryan Kamauff introduced Google Currents to our readers, calling it “one of the best designed apps I have ever seen.” I have to agree, they have done a good job with this, producing something that works on Android and iOS and works well for both those communities. Currents also works well [More here]
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Cloudera and Carahsoft Webinar: Big Data Success in Government 19 Jan 2012
Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar on Big Data in the federal space. The following is from their announcement site: Join us as we describe big data technologies including Apache Hadoop and how government organizations have been successfully deploying these technologies. We will discuss the fundamentals of Hadoop and how it fits [...]
Splunk is Going Public
Thanks for visiting. Please join our community by signing up for our free technology assessments: Subscribe today! Big Data solutions company Splunk has just filed to go public and is looking to raise $125 million in IPO. Splunk, which will list under the symbol SPLK, collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated [...]
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Splunk Is Going Public
Thanks for visiting. Please join our community by signing up for our free technology assessments: Subscribe today! Big Data solutions company Splunk has just filed to go public and is looking to raise $125 million in IPO. Splunk, which will list under the symbol SPLK, collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated [...]
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NSA crafting cyber guidelines
The National Security Agency is developing cybersecurity guidelines to apply to its own systems and ultimately to any government or contractor network, according to sources familiar with the effort. A 38-member team is drawing up the guidelines, which will be based on a list of 20 cybersecurity controls developed two years ago by an independent [...]
U.S. online piracy bill headed for major makeover
With public sentiment on the bill shifting in recent weeks and an implicit veto threat now emerging from the White House, Congressional staffers are resigning themselves to writing replacement language or possibly entirely new bills. The White House said in a blog post over the weekend that it wouldn’t support “legislation that reduces freedom of [...]
DARPA seeks to blend biometrics with passwords in DOD cyber security without new hardware
Military information securityexperts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., are asking for industry’s help in developing ways to blendbiometrics into U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) military cyber security systems without installing new hardware. The intent is no only to save time and money, but also to help bolster existing DOD computer security that [...]
DHS cyber security operations see leadership changes
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber security saw the retirement of one of its leaders on Jan. 13, but also the appointment of a new director on the same day. In a blog post, DHS Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute thanked Rear Admiral Mike Brown for his service as the deputy assistant secretary, Cyber Security [...]
Deputy cyber coordinator leaving the White House
Sameer Bhalotra is leaving as the White House’s deputy cybersecurity coordinator. Government and industry sources confirm Bhalotra is moving back to Northern California after his wife got a new job. His last day will be in the next few weeks. The White House would not comment on Bhalotra’s status. Bhalotra came to the White House in June [...]
