The Best Way To Get Hadoop Is Getting Better: CDH 4 in Final Beta

Good news for Big Data users: Cloudera recently released the second and final beta for Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop version 4 (CDH4), meaning that the official CDH4 release is coming soon. If you aren’t already using CDH, Cloudera offers the leading open-source distribution of the fast, agile, and reliable distributed  computing platform changing the way enterprises [...]

Cloudera Day in DC: Cloudera Manager and Enterprise

Editor’s note: In this post, AlexOlesker provides more context on Big Data gleaned from the 26 Jan 2012 Cloudera Day in DC.-bg Another valuable pannel at the DC Cloudera Day was Todd Lipcon’s look into Hadoop management software Cloudera Manager available through Cloudera Enterprise. Cloudera is in the business of making Hadoop, the open source Big Data [...]

Government Android Should Concern You

Android is a great mobile computing platform. It’s extensible, fairly easy-to-use (considering its plethora of features), has a great application store with hundreds of thousands of applications, and connects back with everything in Google so that all of Google’s information and services are at the users fingertip. For developers, it’s a very extendable platform which [...]

Big Data Tip For The New Project Manager: Starting With Apache Hadoop

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 [...]

An End to the Law Enforcement Social Media Free Lunch?

Say you’re a Crip gangbanger and want to declare a “Crip Holiday” for you and your homies. You put it out on Twitter, bring a 9mm pistol along with you, and congregate at a local park at 7:30. You get there only to find out that the police are waiting for you. Sounds stupid? Well, [...]

Hurricane Irene: GIS, Social Media, and Big Data Shine

As Katherine Maher pointed out on Twitter, no one gets credit when contingency plans work. And it is truly amazing how much government-citizen information collaboration has evolved–not to mention the growth of data journalism even in the most traditional news outlets. The average citizen had a wealth of accurate (and useful) hurricane information to choose [...]

Silicon Valley in a Box: A look at the Plug and Play Tech Center

With this post we provide some info on a capability we believe most of our readers will want to know more about, the Plug and Play Tech Center. For an overview see the video clip below: The Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley facility with a very apropos name. If you have a business [...]

Automating the Extraction of Useable Knowledge From Videos and Photos

Do you have a need to index and search pictures and video? If you are working for any of the intelligence agencies, a police department, or any other security force that involves video and photo, you may. You may even have a need for this outside of the intelligence/security realm. How do you do it [...]