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Today, Fixmo appointed industry and government veteran Daniel Ford as the company’s Chief Security Officer. Ford has over fifteen years of information security and risk management experience in the private and public sectors. He led the security teams for top tier IT firms McAfee, Nominum, BAE Systems, SRA, Unisys, and Accuvant where he served as Chief Technologist [...]
$1.55 million in Series Seed financing, led by Flywheel Ventures. The funding also included participation from strategic investors, including S&K Technologies, a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribally- owned company, and GCS Research, a leader in geospatial IT solutions. The investment will be used to expand its software development team and business development presence for key [...]
Invincea is on record that the year 2011 will go down as the year the fundamental underpinnings of Internet security fell. In fact, it is the bloodiest year on record for Internet security. Not only did we witness compromises of Certificate Authorities to forge digital certificates, the compromise of the market-leading two-factor authentication product, and SSL, but [...]
Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many successful open source projects including Lucene, [...]
Google+ might be a decent alternative to Twitter, but it does not play well with others Okay Google, we get it. You make some really great products. But what’s the deal with Google+? The service is seems to aspire to be mix between Facebook and Twitter, yet is lacking the critical differentiators that both of [...]
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 hundreds of terabytes a day [...]
Do you have a program or project that is evaluating “big data” approaches to the solution. You are not alone. With the explosion of data hitting almost every facet of IT, project leaders and program managers everywhere are downloading and evaluating the open source Apache Hadoop. Since the word Hadoop is so frequently used to [...]
NetApp and Cloudera Partner to Speed Deployment, Simplify Manageability, and Reduce Costs of Enterprise Hadoop Infrastructures SUNNYVALE, CA and PALO ALTO, CA, Nov 07, 2011 - Global competition today is generating more, bigger, and more complex data than ever before, from point-of-sale data to mobile phone data to scientific and market research information. There is an [...]
If the iPhone 4S is your first iPhone, you have probably already realized how awesome it is and wondered to your self, “Why did I wait so long?” If you upgraded to the new iPhone from a previous model you are enjoying the added feature of Siri, the faster processor, and the better camera. But if you have [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims at transforming the VA’s IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to veterans, their families and survivors. HP Enterprise Services also has [...]