Bob Gourley

Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many successful open source projects including Lucene, Nutch, and Hadoop. The event was heavily attended by government and private sector IT professionals and data scientists. Cloudera is the industry leader in Hadoop, contributing extensively to the open source code and putting out the most popular Hadoop distribution for free, Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), which bundles the most valuable software in the Hadoop ecosystem integrated with one another and the widest range of hardware and software. Topics discussed included “Cloudera and the Inte... (more)

Hadoop Quickstart: Use Whirr to automate standup of your distributed cluster on Rackspace

We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government).  And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera’s CDH3).  Using Bryan’s guide you can have a Hadoop Cluster up and running in under 20 minutes. With this post we would like to provide you with some additional tips that flow from these other posts. We will s... (more)

SOCOM’s Technology Wish List

Photo credit wikipedia Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recently released a Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for several types of technologies that they are looking for in cooperation with the private sector. We are interested in all forms of disrupting technologies at  Crucial Point LLC and after looking this wish list from SOCOM it is  pretty clear they are looking for disruptive technologies as well. Below is a breakdown of what they are looking for. If your company can help in any of these fields you can check to the BAA here. AREAS OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIE... (more)

Apple has $46B Quarter – But what does it mean?

Apple knocked it out of the park this quarter - but is it enough? Apple Inc just had their first $40B quarter ever – to the tune of $46B dollars in revenue.  They sold 37M iPhones, 15M iPads and 15M iPods. Additionally, they sold 5M Mac computers. These numbers are ridiculous. Right now Apple is stacking away a ton of cash – so much so that it makes the $100M they wasted on a spurious lawsuit against HTC merely a drop in the bucket. These numbers are astounding – but are actually not surprising. In this quarter, Apple released the iPhone 4S and was bolstered by holiday spending. ... (more)

Big Data Success in Government

On January 19, Carahsoft hosted a webinar on Big Data success in government with Bob Gourley and Omer Trajman of Cloudera.  Bob began by explaining the current state of Big Data in the government.   There are 4 areas of significant activity in Big Data. Federal integrators are making large investments in research and development of solutions.  Large firms like Lockhead Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, QinetiQ, SAIC as well as smaller “boutique” organizations have made major contributions. The Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community have been major adopters of Big Da... (more)