McLean, VA – December 6, 2018 – Novetta, a leader in advanced analytics technology and an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner, had an exceptional presence at one of the largest tech conferences of the year, AWS re:Invent. Novetta participated in two speaking engagements and two AWS product launches, and also served as an AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) sponsor. Kicking off the week, Novetta was honored to have Kim Bartoe join Teresa Carlson, AWS Vice President WWPS, and industry peers on stage during WPT201 – We Power Tech: Lightning Talks with Executive Women in Tech. Kim discussed diversity and…
Deploying Machine Learning at the Edge
From the team that presented AWS re:Invent 2018 session WPS304 “Rapid Prototyping for Today’s Mission”. Problem It’s imperative for warfighters to have actionable, up-to-date knowledge about their adversaries. This requires having the ability to quickly process and analyze new data when and where it is discovered. The current procedure for gathering, processing, and analyzing data can take weeks or months due to logistics, transport, and data handling complications. Using the AWS Snowball Edge, this entire process can be automated, delivering insights from data collected in the field within minutes or hours. AWS Snowball Edge The Snowball Edge is…
2016 AWS re:Invent Recap
Incremental improvements help AWS press their advantage
Last year I described AWS re:Invent 2015 as being, in a word, “big”. While the 2016 rendition of Amazon Web Services’ marquee event was bigger still (32,000 attendees compared with about 17,00 last year), I think the operative word this year is “evolutionary”. The show had a notable absence of groundbreaking product releases, with energy focused on incremental product enhancements that address very specific problems. The idea that AWS has transitioned from the revolutionary to the evolutionary seems at a glance to be disappointing. From the perspective of their competitors, however, it should be absolutely terrifying. Consider Andy Jassy’s opening…