A trip through the Ozone
Long a proponent of big data analytics, the intelligence community has worked with private contractors and the Government Open Source Software Board to build the Ozone Widget Framework.
What is virtual network computing?
VNC, developed as an open source “ultra-thin client system,” has matured as a remote access tool for telework and IT maintenance and support.
Big IT players add analytics apps to enterprise systems
Intel and Microsoft offer new data analytics tools designed to build upon their installed base of enterprise technologies and services.
How big data is remaking the government data center
The spread of big data tools and technologies is not only altering the way government data is being analyzed, it is reshaping the data center itself.
Relief for integration headaches
Making incompatible technologies play nice isn't easy. Here are some ways to address integration challenges.
City of Raleigh takes open technology to the limit
Raleigh, N.C.’s Open Raleigh initiative is pursuing open data and open access projects in an effort to drive public interest and industry investment.
Will the real cloud operating system please stand up?
The lack of clarity around the concept of a cloud operating system is an indicator of the rapid evolution of cloud computing and the consequences of a torrid pace of change.
Patent search engines aim to open innovations to the world
The Lens open search engine provides access to 100 million documents in 90 countries, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office makes Chinese patent documentation searchable via the PTO website.
Rutgers' RTM Dx makes crime prediction affordable
RTM Dx is a free tool developed by researchers at Rutgers University's School of Criminal Justice to help police predict where crimes are going to occur.
CSA pushes software-defined perimeter network protection
Standardized SDP security framework will protect application infrastructures from network-based attacks.
National Guard training center to host open-source UAV research
Multi-agency program seeks to identify cost savings and drive innovation for government unmanned aerial vehicle systems.
ISO: Open-source tools to liberate data from PDFs
In an effort to expand open-source PDF conversion options, the Sunlight Foundation is holding the PDF Liberation Hackathon, dedicated to improving open-source tools for PDF extraction.
Esri's CityEngine eases urban planning mapmaking in 3-D
GIS developer Esri releases new version of CityEngine, software used to generate 3-D designs for planning urban environments.
DataViva tools give power to the people over open data
An team of MIT Media Lab professors and Brazilian economic policymakers partner on data visualization tools designed to help ordinary citizens mine government’s open data.
NASA moves earth science tools, platform to the cloud
OpenNEX puts data and tools from NASA's Earth Exchange into the Amazon cloud improve collaboration with the academic, public and private sectors.
Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D
The Commonwealth teams up with universities and high tech firms to launch a cloud marketplace geared to sharing compute capacity and services.
Ohio builds AweSim Web-based supercomputing apps
AweSim's affordable and easy-to-use apps will bring HPC modeling and simulation power to Ohio's small businesses.
Open-source community helps with emergency VistA patch
The nonprofit Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent spearheaded the effort to create an emergency patch to a security breach on VistA fortuitously discovered by a Georgia Tech grad student.
Testing 1-2-3: Open-source tools to ensure quality applications
Developers, testers and domain experts can work together to leverage a combination of open-source tools, automation and discipline to build quality into their applications from the start.
NTRU crypto software available to open-source community
Security Innovation says offering its public key cryptography for use in open-source community would head off a looming ‘cyrptopocalypse’ caused by limited choice of encryption algorithms.
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