By Bob Gourley

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SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing

Brings Unmatched Performance to Big Data Applications and Services

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2013–

SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the…

Join ELGL’s Willamette Valley chapter this Thursday, June 20th at noon to hear from Elena Fracchia  Associate Director of Income at United Way of Lane County.

“All communities have an ingrained…

Congressional Hearing Scheduled for June 26.

The Portland Police Sunshine Division is in need of volunteers to help deliver food boxes this Saturday, June 22nd.  The Sunshine Division delivers emergency food boxes and clothing to Portland families and individuals in need.  This Saturday they need help delivering over…

I had another conversation the other day about the value landscape.  I’ve talked about this before and I wanted to touch on it a little bit again because I think it’s applicable to almost any type of project that you do, especially around business…

I find this stuff so you don’t have to:

• Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi
• Battle for the planet of the APIs
• Returning to Free Software: A Guide…

The other day at the next marina, there was a 32-foot cabin cruiser attempting to tie up to the dock. The captain was having a difficult time bringing the boat near the dock – very entertaining for the observers in our marina.…

By Bob Gourley

If you are an enterprise technologist the driving factors in your technology selections are probably the discriminating functionality of the technology you are looking at mixed with factors like cost, simplicity, ability to work with your legacy environment, and overall ability to position your organization for success. Most enterprise CTOs also pay close attention to the ability of firms to continue to…

In our latest report, Finding New Efficiencies through Big Data Analysis, I had the opportunity to speak with EMC’s Audie Hittle, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Federal Market at EMC Isilon. Hittle states, “There is a growing recognition that we finally have the tools and are able…

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER:

• Default open data; that was one of the big takeaways from the Digital Government Strategy released last year. But the DGS was a bit murkey on how agencies should implement open data. The White House has formalized that dilemma with the Open Data Directive released in May. Click here for the full…

The armed forces all face a similar challenge: how to use technology to provide war fighters with the most reliable, up to date information, anywhere and at any time. As Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, John Grimes, noted, "we can leverage information at the right time to allow decision makers to make better operational decisions faster." Most organizations…

Hundreds of unread emails, regulatory requirements, acquisition holdups, antiquated technology - in the government it seems there is always something to complain about. But that endless cycle of…

Big data is a big task. Of the many agencies dealing with massive amounts of data is the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB). As an independent agency within the federal government, RATB is focused on providing extensive transparency insights to federal programs as well as preventing waste, fraud and abuse of Recovery Act funds. Since its establishment in 2009, RATB has become one of the swiftest federal agencies in technology.…

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Default open data; that was one of the big takeaways from the Digital Government Strategy released last year. But the DGS was a bit murkey on how agencies…

By Bob Gourley

We are beginning to formulate assessments on the potential impact to the federal technology community of some recent developments we believe will have far-reaching and positive impact. Over the last quarter Cloudera has continued to announce strategic partnerships, improvements to their open source technology integrations, and new capabilities that will…

By Timothy Coleman

A new study concludes that 70 percent of Federal IT executives deem “Big Data,” as a transformative lynchpin for mission critical work.  Published by MeriTalk, an online government IT resource, and sponsored by EMC Corporation, a leading provider of IT storage hardware solutions, “The Smarter Uncle Sam: The Big Data…

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Check out EPA's new infographic: MSW in the United States.

How does your community or office measure up? Are you trying any new innovative approaches to reduce waste and increase…

Last month, Ivan Oransky of ReutersHealth published a piece on a new article in JAMA Internal Medicine that looked at the quality of patient education materials.

And what they found wasn’t…