Tag: government

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. Predictive Analytics and Big Data at PrescientWith the advent of technology and justifiably high expectations for public safety, it is not enough to deal with a crime after it occurs anymore. In the world of Big Data, the powers of predictive analytics applied to emerging threats can help prevent a disaster before it happens. Presence of Mind at Prescient Federal, international, and corporate organizations have a large stake in tackling complex global security challenges, but there is also a desperate need to protect individuals whenever they decide to travel away from the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Deutscher. This month we are announcing the release of support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication in Azure Media Services. Customers of our REST API and .NET client libraries can now use AAD authentication to authorize requests. In addition, we are releasing a new management blade in the Azure Portal to simplify the usage of User and Service Principal authentication with AAD. With the release of this update to our REST API, we are now able to provide the same role-based access management (RBAC) as provided by the Azure Resource Management (ARM) service. By ... Read More

Feed: AllegroGraph - THE Semantic Graph Database. Author: cnorvell. Franz Extends its Semantic Graph Database AllegroGraph 5.0 Unveils New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications OAKLAND, Calif. — February 9, 2015 — Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announcedAllegroGraph 5.0 with unique multi-dimensional indexing capabilities. Data Scientists can think of these new multi-dimensional indices as similar to OLAP data cubes or HyperCubes but with the powerful dynamic data linking of a Graph Database. AllegroGraph was the first Graph Database to offer advanced temporal and geospatial libraries. With this latest release AllegroGraph again leads the industry with multi-dimensional event based data processing for solutions ... Read More

Feed: AllegroGraph - THE Semantic Graph Database. Author: cnorvell. AllegroGraph News January, 2015 In this issue Free Webcast: Haystax presents: Advanced Analytic Techniques for Insider Threat Detection Press Release: Haystax and Franz Inc. Partner to Deliver Insider Threat Detection Solutions Gruff v5.6 Now Available! AllegroGraph v5.0 Coming Soon! Follow us on Google Plus, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube Brief Customer and News Highlights Haystax presents: Advanced Analytic Techniques for Insider Threat Detection Wednesday, January 21, 10:00 AM Pacific Insiders are one of the top categories of data breaches according to recent reports by the FBI, Forrester Research and Verizon. In just ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ramesh Dontha. One of the best ways to learn about any topic is start with very fundamental questions like What, Why etc? Good old Socratic method. In this series of articles on data mining, I plan to approach this topic in a similar fashion.  What is Data Mining? Simply put, Data mining is the process of sifting through large data sets to identify and describe patterns, discover and establish relationships with an intent to predict future trends based on those patterns and relationships. Why is data mining relevant now? Haven’t we been ‘mining’ data from time immemorial? Yes and No ... Read More

Feed: Planet DB2 Author: Dave Beulke By Dave Beulke, on June 21st, 2017 Over the years, I have developed many of my security practices and used many of the government security guidelines to perform security audits in client environments. The combination of the government guidelines and my experience helps me uncover and secure the desired client’s systems and applications against ever-changing hacker attack points.One of the resources that I use to uncover vulnerabilities is NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) which has a National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD). There is a nice software search capability that documents all the issues ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. We are excited to announce that Azure Government services are now available through the Cloud Solution Provider program (CSP). The CSP program enables partners to make Microsoft Cloud services part of their customer offerings, expanding U.S. government customer options in meeting their mission goals. With the CSP program, partners can now create high-value service offerings that combine use of Azure Government with solution management, customer support, and billing to U.S. government customers. The security, privacy, compliance and transparency of the Azure Government platform give U.S. government partners the right foundation for meeting regulatory ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. From computer vision systems for autonomous driving to FDA-approved medical imaging, artificial intelligence (AI) is driving public sector innovation. Governments, defense agencies, and other public sector organizations are adding AI into their platform, solutions, and products to perform tasks that usually require human-level intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, or translation.In order to change the way services are delivered to the blind or to inspire the next generation of space explorers, organizations need to overcome hurdles related to the scale of data, scale of compute, and variety of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS), the 12th largest school district in Florida with more than 67,000 students and 10,000 employees, required a secure and mobile responsive website that could keep up with the growth in Seminole County.As a premier district nationally, they wanted a website that reflected their high standards. Their old website, created in house by their IT department almost five years ago, was filled with outdated information (wrong numbers and incorrect contact information) and spanned over 2,000 pages. The dated aesthetic, combined with a cumbersome back-end system for web ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: Dave Stokes. JavaScript and MySQL Last time I looked at using the new MySQL Shell in JavaScript mode to access documents. I promised that I would look at indexes this time but a few folks wanted to see how to use the MySQL Document Store with Javascript -- the language not the MySQL Shell mode-- specifically with the Node.JS connector. And they ask for a very simple example. So Indexes in the future, Node.JS now. So this is a simple on using the MySQL Document Store from Node.JS.Install Download the Node.JS connector and then follow the ... Read More