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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

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By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. None of them were really about technology. The really interesting stories, at least from a CTO perspective, are big technology mega trends that are forcing change and positive improvements in enterprise IT.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Al-Qaeda Innovations Correlated To Unauthorized Disclosures By Snowden: Independent Verification Through Open Source Intelligence

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Now for more on their assessment: Recorded Future reported that: Since 2007, Al-Qaeda’s use of encryption technology has been based on the Mujahideen Secrets platform which has developed to include support for mobile, instant messaging, and Macs. They provide more meat and graphics here.

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Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation

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Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. That’s where Temporal comes in, offering an open-source microservices orchestration platform that replaces ad-hoc systems. He left in 2013 for Google, then joined Uber in 2015. Temporal Photo). Temporal is now valued at $1.5

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

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Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. EzBake, DIAs Technology Agnostic Framework Under ORION that Enables Seamless Transition into ICITE. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

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Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. 10:30 AM EzBake, DIAs Technology Agnostic Framework Under ORION that Enables Seamless Transition into ICITE. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

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For Java Developers: Sign up for two hour Enterprise Ehcache workshop in DC 7 Nov

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Here are details from the invite: Many developers have already grown to love the in-memory computing capabilities of open source Ehcache, but the rise of real-time Big Data means you want to keep larger amounts of data in memory with low, predictable latency. November 7, 2013. Newseum – 2nd Floor. 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW.