Accumulo

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5 Open-Source Technologies Powering The Army's Battlefield Cloud

William Welsh | GCN | October 8, 2013

Cloud computing has, without a doubt, forever changed military intelligence, according to Army and contractor executives working on the Distributed Common Ground System-Army Standard Cloud (DSC) in Afghanistan. Read More »

Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database

Jeff Kelly | siliconangle.com | August 20, 2012

If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency... Read More »

Big Data And Analytics: The Hero Or The Villain?

Theo Priestley | Wired | June 10, 2013

As the NSA PRISM debacle continues to unfold and spreads across continents it’s probably good to stop and think about the technology and philosophy behind it all. Because this is big data and analytics in its most potent and controversial form, and it’s certainly not the last time we’ll see this hit the headlines. Read More »

Bill in Congress Targets NSA's Accumulo Open Source Project

Kathleen Hickey | Government Computer News | July 20, 2012

A new bill on Capitol Hill could have far reaching implications for government use and development of open source platforms – potentially requiring all open source projects to “prove adequate industry support and diversification.”

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From NSA To Open Source : Apps Are ‘Nuggets Of Innovaton,’ Says Sqrrl | #BigDataNYC

Valentina Craft | Silicon Angle | October 31, 2013

Adam Fuchs, CTO of sqrrl, had a noteworthy chat with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at the BigDataNYC 2013 event in New York, covering topics ranging from the Big data lessons learned at the NSA to the NoSQL database. Read More »

How Accumulo Safeguards Your Civil Liberties

Jeffrey Kelly | Silicon Angle | June 7, 2013

It’s been widely reported that the NSA is in the midst of collecting huge volumes of call metadata from Verizon associated with all domestic and international calls made by the company’s customers for three months [...]. Less attention has been paid to what exactly the government does with all that data or the technology supporting it. Read More »

Is Accumulo The World’s Most Scalable Graph Store?

Staff Writer | Sqrrl Blog | May 29, 2013

NSA just released some fascinating new data on Apache Accumulo performance as a massively scalable graph store.  The data was presented last week at Carnegie Mellon University, and the abstract of the report reads: Read More »

Just How Closely Can The NSA Really Watch You?

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | June 20, 2013

Leaks that suggest the NSA is vacuuming up personal information from the phone records and online-service data of U.S. citizens have some people concerned about the prospect of an Orwellian surveillance state that can track our every move. Read More »

NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | June 21, 2013

Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »

NSA Veterans’ Start-Up Offers Secure Data Mining

Michael B. Farrell | The Boston Globe | November 4, 2013

The National Security Agency’s digital snooping may have inflamed a national debate over privacy, but it has been a godsend for a tiny start-up in Cambridge.  Read More »

NSA's Accumulo Data Store Has Strict Limits On Who Can See The Data

Joab Jackson | PCWorld | October 31, 2013

With its much-discussed enthusiasm for collecting large amounts of data, the NSA naturally found much interest in the idea of highly scalable NoSQL databases. Read More »

NSA's Accumulo NoSQL Store Offers Role-Based Data Access

Joab Jackson | InfoWorld | October 31, 2013

With its much-discussed enthusiasm for collecting large amounts of data, the NSA naturally found much interest in the idea of highly scalable NoSQL databases. Read More »

NSA's Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test

J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | October 11, 2012

Accumulo, the data storage software developed by the National Security Agency, has taken another step toward the enterprise market. Sqrrl, the startup launched by former NSA technologists to commercialize Accumulo, has teamed up with Apache Hadoop provider Hortonworks to combine their technologies. Read More »

NSA’s Open Source “Accumulo” At Center of White House Veto Threat

Dan Verton | Homeland Security Today | November 30, 2012

The White House Thursday threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013, citing, among other things, a provision dealing with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) open-source database project known as “Accumulo,” arguing that the bill could hinder NSA’s ability to support the new national defense strategy. Read More »

Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson On Open Government

Andrew Gregory | TechRadar | December 23, 2012

INTERVIEW Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson on open government
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