Carahsoft Technology, Four LLC and Immix Technology have received contract modifications worth a combined $130 million to continue to provide commercial off-the-shelf software products and maintenance services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Tuesday contractors are required to supply COTS software products that have obtained full ce...
Mat Keep, director of product and market analysis at MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), has said government agencies should modernize their data infrastructures to manage and analyze large volumes of collected data through the adoption of non-relational databases. Keep wrote such databases work to help organizations automatically spread data across public cloud...
Chuck Yarbrough, vice president of solutions management and marketing for data integration and analytics at Hitachi Vantara™s Pentaho subsidiary, has said government agencies should implement data analytics tools to make data more actionable and facilitate the decision-making process. Yarbrough wrote that self-service analytics tools work to em...
Laura Grant, head of digital innovation for public sector at SAP (NYSE: SAP), has said government agencies seeking to generate insights from large datasets and accelerate the decision-making process should share and layer data at granular levels. Grant wrote that machine learning and predictive analytics are among the technology platf...
Aileen Black, executive director, industry lead and group leader for the U.S. government at Google™s cloud business, has said government agencies should consider three factors when migrating to the cloud and one of those is to understand the cloud™s capability to address the gap between the mission or user and big data analytics. œThe...
David Gould, WW director for secure content management solutions at Micro Focus Government Solutions, has said federal agencies should have information governance policies in place to facilitate data searches and speed up response to requests for information. Gould wrote that such policies should promote integration of various data silos, applicatio...
Cameron Chehreh, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Dell EMC™s federal business, has said government agencies seeking to gain insights from collected data to facilitate the decision-making process and build up citizen services should first focus on the mission outcome. Chehreh wrote that agencies should frequ...
Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said government agencies seeking to ensure security of applications within the network should initially change their mindset through the adoption of the œzero trust model. Schneider wrote that implementing such a model œmeans you have to a...
Tom Ruff, vice president of public sector at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said government agencies should establish a comprehensive œdefense-in-depth strategy to protect networks from distributed denial-of-service attacks, cross-site scripting and oth...
Brent Hansen, senior director of solution architects at Thales e-Security, has said federal agencies seeking to build up their cybersecurity posture should prioritize the adoption of technology platforms that work to encrypt data at rest. Hansen wrote that encrypting data at rest could help agencies safeguard critical information from cyber breaches...
