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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, [...]
Governments (local, State, Federal, International) need more agility. This is especially true in the domain of Information Technology. Information technology is one of the fastest moving industries, but the government is slow at adopting and procuring new technology, including the technology that would make it more agile and adaptive. There are things we can do [...]
Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend a Juniper event that had Pradeep Sindhu, the CTO and founder of Juniper networks speaking. Pradeep gave a great talk that went into how our networks are transforming (but have to transform faster) and where he sees the future of networking. Looking at today’s environment, Pradeep warned [...]
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of Crucial Point LLC, is now soliciting nominations for the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award. We are seeking nominations which highlight best practices in solving Big Data challenges using new approaches, especially those built around the Apache Hadoop framework of solutions. Award winners will be written up in our online technology reviews [...]
The 28 September 2011 FedCyber.com Cyber Security Summit is an action-oriented event that has attracted some of the nation’s greatest cybersecurity practitioners to the podium and is also bringing together great thought leaders as summit attendees. Have you registered yet? It is free for government attendees. More on the agenda and how you can participate [...]
With the ubiquity of Big Data, Apache Hadoop has become a vital platform for cost-effective, reliable, scalable distributed computing to store and analyze hundreds of gigabytes of complex information. Since the Hadoop ecosystem is open source, it is supported with a growing community of professionals. However, it is a platform in growing demand which means [...]
Want the recipe for a real government shutdown? Combine 30% annual data growth, an explosion of virtual data, and an outdated federal back-up infrastructure. Adding more storage is not fixing the problem. But what’s the alternative? According to a new survey from CTOlabs.com and Carahsoft, there are numerous forward-thinking government IT professionals using data duplication [...]
Our parent company Crucial Point is part of the Fulcrum IT team, which has just won a contract supporting the JDISS program office in Suitland, MD. We are hiring immediately. All positions require a US government security clearance. Positions include systems/software engineers, Senior Program Managers, Senior Technical Leads, ISR Specialists, Analyst/Engineers, Principle Database Managers and others. [...]
Cloudera is widely known as a community builder. They provide significant support to the open source community and also provide world class best training to developers in and out of enterprises. You can get their training several ways, including sponsoring special courses on your premise, using online courseware, or attending training events. We are especially [...]