Report: Google Entering Big Data, Offering Cloud Analytics
Google plans to release a cloud-based big data service for analyzing large sets of data from external sources, Information Week reports. The Internet company told GigOm Structure Data conference attendees it is offering its Google Big Query solution in a limited beta preview, according to the report. The big data solution allows users to analyze [...]
The Army plans to modernize its tactical communications network by creating a Web system that would allow soldiers in the field to provide one another real-time intelligence. Shane Sims, current major in the Army’s Project Manager for Mission Command, said Friday the Army is fielding an application store like system that will let users inject new [...]
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The intelligence community is reportedly looking to use more than satellite images and traditional reports to gain insight into adversaries’ actions, according to NextGov. Amr Awadallah, CloudEra’s chief technology officer, told NextGov agencies are looking to algorithms that can search GPS reports and social media data to gain intelligence on U.S. adversaries. CloudEra supports the [...]
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