It's a new year and a time to reflect on last year and wonder what the future brings for 2013. The past several years have brought a great deal of change to the federal IT market, and 2013 will be no exception. One thing is for sure, 2013 will bring a convergence of issues impacting agencies from budget uncertainty, IT mandates and acquisition policies, to oversight and human capital issues. With all of those issues at hand, what will be the t...

Join us for this technical deep dive about Cloudera Impala, the project that makes scalable parallel databse technology available to the Hadoop community for the first time. Impala is an open-sourced code base that allows users to issue low-latency queries to data stored in HDFS and Apache HBase using familiar SQL operators. Presenter Marcel Kornacker, creator of Impala, will begin with an overview of Impala from the user's perspective, follow...

Although OMB's Cloud-First mandate requires federal agencies to increase the adoption of cloud computing, building a strong business case for a cloud project is still essential to receiving the investment required for that transformation. If you can't establish quantifiable objectives up front, you may never get the approval required to get your private cloud off the ground and implemented enterprise-wide. Please join us for this live webcast...