This paper, titled “Datameer’s User-Focused Big Data Solutions” provides context on Big Data with a special emphasis on Datameer’s approach.

Datameer provides a complete analytics platform that supports users. Users see familiar interfaces and easy to manipulate interactive visualizations. They are supported with a back end that integrates all the enterprise’s data resources. The result: powerful Big Data solutions are provided to users in a way that lets them interact directly with data instead of being forced to work through development teams.

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Way-In enables real-time crowd sourcing of opinion (in a fun way)

If you have not yet checked out WayIn, you might want to head over there right now. WayIn allows you to post quick polls and quickly crowd source opinion. While it is still a small service, they have big goals (and the back-end to accomplish them).

But WayIn is not just for fun, or entertainment. I believe that it has real enterprise value. Human resources and other departments are always looking for new ways to take the climate of an agency or just more efficient temperature taking.

WayIn enables digital surveys in all but real time, allowing users to easily (and anonymously chime in). Users can also create their own surveys, allowing for crowd-sourced (and approved) recommendations.

While many enterprises are looking for social capabilities, few have thought out social media 2.0 – where social capabilities could dictate business processes and growth. WayIn offers an easy (possibly even fun) way for employees to interact and for managers to learn.

While all the WayIn use cases have not been invented or discovered, human resources are just one place in which WayIn can help your enterprise adopt to (and exploit) social media 2.0.

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Silver Tail Systems Opens DC-Area Government Office and
Establishes Key Partnership With Carahsoft

Menlo Park, CA – April 18, 2012 – Silver Tail Systems, the leading provider of web session intelligence, today extended its efforts to help the U.S. Federal government enhance the online security of the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Federal Civilian agencies. Silver Tail Systems is appointing a Federal sales organization, striking a key partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted provider of IT solutions to the Federal government and opening a new office in Washington D.C. to expand its presence in the government market.

“With daily cyberattacks and new hacker groups being created constantly, cyberspace is a huge challenge for the DoD as well other government organizations and private companies around the world,” says Steve Hawald, Research Director of Gartner Research. “Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, more random and more targeted.”*

“To meet the mission need for more-agile collaboration while still maintaining high levels of security, older cyberdefenses need to be upgraded or replaced to be more effective and efficient,” continues Hawald. “The ability to continuously monitor and regularly evolve security controls is critical.”

In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit, strategic investment firm for the U.S. Intelligence Community, invested in Silver Tail Systems in 2010. Launched in 1999, IQT’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States.

“Silver Tail Systems’ solution monitors website traffic and identifies anomalies in real-time. Their unique system creates models of what is normal traffic for a website’s population and uses that to identify threats,” said William Strecker, Executive Vice President and CTO at IQT. “Our strategic investment in Silver Tail Systems enabled us to offer this powerful technology to our customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and further protect our Nation’s assets.”

To address the unique security challenges facing the Federal sector and accelerate adoption of its product portfolio, Silver Tail Systems is partnering with Carahsoft, a trusted government IT solutions provider delivering pioneering technologies, best-of-breed hardware, software, and support solutions to federal, state and local government agencies. With a shared focus on delivering innovation and value to each customer, Carahsoft and Silver Tail Systems will work together to help government agencies protect against external attacks, insider threats, and stop fraud in real-time.

“We are thrilled to partner with Silver Tail Systems,” said Michael Shrader, Director of Innovative Solutions at Carahsoft. “The company’s unique approach to understanding behavior on web-based platforms will address some of the most prominent security issues facing government organizations today. We are pleased to add Silver Tail Systems to our extensive portfolio of In-Q-Tel solutions and to make this technology available to our partners, resellers and customers.”

“Federal organizations are embracing the web as never before to share information, collaborate and conduct the business of the government. As web-based activity grows, so does the opportunity for global cyber espionage, cybercrime, and targeted attacks to inflict harm on the country,” said Timothy Eades, CEO at Silver Tail Systems. “Real-time monitoring of web sessions is a critical component to protecting web-based infrastructure and protecting both the public and private sectors that have grown to rely upon it to accomplish their mission.”

To learn more about “Defending Against Fraudsters, Adversaries and the Insider Threat: How Web Behavior Analysis Is Changing Online Security,” join Silver Tail Systems and Carahsoft for a webinar on Wednesday, May 16th at 11 a.m. EST. Visit www.silvertailsystems.com for details.

*Gartner, Inc., Rethinking U.S. DoD Cybersecurity in a Post-WikiLeaks World, Steve Hawald, November 1, 2011.

About Silver Tail Systems, Inc.

Silver Tail Systems is a leading provider of web session intelligence and protects the world’s leading websites against fraud and cyber attacks at the navigation layer. Silver Tail Systems’ award-winning solutions are made possible by the unmatched expertise of its management and technology teams, who bring deep experience, know-how and personal commitment to protect their customers’ businesses against online fraud. For more information, visit Silver Tail Systems at www.silvertailsystems.com.

About Carahsoft

Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, resellers and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

The company’s dedicated Solutions Divisions proactively market, sell and deliver VMware, Symantec, Adobe, HP, F5 Networks, EMC, Open Source, HR, Intelligence and SAP products and services, among others. Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer, and is listed annually among the industry’s fastest growing firms by VAR Business, CRN, Inc., Washington Technology and the Washington Business Journal. Visit us at http://www.carahsoft.com.

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MOTIONDSP CEO TO DELIVER ADDRESS ON REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING AT THE FULL MOTION VIDEO FOR DEFENSE SUMMIT

Speech to Address How the Department of Defense (DoD) Can Address Current and Future Challenges with Full Motion Video (FMV) Quality and Analytics to Deliver Better Situational Awareness to the Warfighter

Burlingame, CA., April 17, 2012 – MotionDSP, a Silicon Valley-based company that develops advanced, real-time image processing software for video enhancement and analytics, enabling full-motion video (FMV) analysts to see better and deliver better real-time intelligence to the warfighter, will be presenting and exhibiting at the Full Motion Video for Defense Summit.

The three-day conference, sponsored by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA), will focus on the latest FMV advancements, overcoming challenges  in data shortage, retrieval and analysis, and improving FMV footage in real-time to protect our troops.

Who: Dr. Sean Varah, Chief Executive Officer, MotionDSP

What: Dr. Varah will deliver a speech entitled “Real-time FMV/WAMI image processing”. The address will focus on the following topics:

• How high-performance image processing software can address critical DoD challenges with video quality and operator productivity
• What computational challenges are coming with the move to HD FMV and WAMI sources
• How inexpensive graphics processors (GPUs) are a viable solution for scalable, real-time FMV and WAMI processing and
• What DoD systems architects should be considering in next-generation “cloud” architectures.

Where: Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22311, Virginia

When: Dr. Varah will deliver his speech on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 1:30 pm.

Exhibitor: MotionDSP will also exhibit at the event and release their latest solution, Ikena ISR 3, with endless mosaicing, VMTI, and super-resolution detail capabilities.

Register: Please go to http://www.fullmotionvideoevent.com/Event.aspx?id=678806, discount code “FMVM”

About MotionDSP

Headquartered in Burlingame, California, MotionDSP is a leading innovator in advanced, GPU-accelerated image processing software. MotionDSP’s “Ikena” (Ee-Kehn-Ah) family of products dramatically improve the quality of video captured by a wide range of sources–from surveillance cameras to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in law enforcement, commercial security, and military applications. MotionDSP’s solutions support operational deployments within the US Department of Defense and National Intelligence agencies, and its customers also include the US Air Force, Navy, US Intelligence, and the world’s leading video forensic labs such as the US Secret Service, NCIS, and the London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard).

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This is something I posted to a Sun internal discussion group a while back; it stirred a little interest back then, but given the way that the world has moved on, I figured it would be worth revising and reprising it here.

The issue of identity has been bothering me for a while. While identity can clearly be applied to human consumers of services – and expressed as a subset of information held about them in various places – I also wonder how the concept of identity could be used for various other entities, and indeed how the properties of identity as applied to humans could potentially be mapped onto them.

Hence the table below, which is a first attempt at making this mapping in the context of servers and services, for files, running processes, OS instances, Solaris zones (and to some degree BSD jails and IBM LPARs), hardware domains and services. Cells with question marks in them are areas where I currently don’t see a mapping – this could mean that a mapping is not appropriate, or that an appropriate technology does not exist today, and could point the way for a bit of fundamental research.

I suspect I’m heading down a path which has been well-trodden already, but you might find some parts of this interesting and thought-provoking. For clarity, FMRIs (Fault Management Resource Identifiers) are Solaris Service Management Framework constructs resembling URLs, which uniquely describe an instance of a service in terms of processes needed to provide the service and their dependencies. For more info, see  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/04/13/using-solaris-smf.html .

Also, labels refer to the data structures in Solaris Trusted Extensions, which are usually mapped to protective markings.

Anyway:

Noting the appearance of Trusted Computing technology (attestation, Trusted Platform Modules) in several places, this gives further weight to the sound (but currently unofficial) advice from Bromium, to the effect of “don’t buy any more servers that don’t have TPMs in them”.

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“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday she would consider having tech companies participate with the government in “proactive” efforts to combat hackers based in foreign countries.”

(Source: Homeland Security chief contemplating proactive cyber attacks – San Jose Mercury News.)

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