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Wyle Forms Partnership to Enhance WAN Offerings to Federal Customers
Published on 8 Nov, 2011 at 13:29 in Industry News | Viewed 15 times | No Comments
Wyle’s Information Systems group has formed a partnership with Circadence Corp, a provider of wide area network and network optimization solutions.
The companies will work to provide federal government agencies and other organizations with sophisticated WAN optimization that augment Wyle’s solution offerings.
“Finding the right partners and working with them to implement innovative mission improvements for our customers is an…
EMC Scale-Out Storage Deployed at Univ. of Utah
Published on 8 Nov, 2011 at 13:24 in Industry News | Viewed 13 times | No Comments
The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has deployed scale-out network-attached storage provided by EMC Corporation’s Isilon division.
The storage will be used to power the institute’s big data-intensive workflows in various research areas, including biomedicine and geophysics.
An Isilon statement says the institute will benefit from increased returns from information technology investment and simplified…
Quest Releases 6 Steps for Guiding and Improving Data Access Controls
Published on 8 Nov, 2011 at 13:22 in Industry News | Viewed 11 times | No Comments
Quest software has just released its six steps for guiding assessments and improving data access controls. Those steps include:
Discover Users and Resources – The first step involves an infrastructure inventory of important data, which can and often does reside on multiple platforms, Network-Attached Storage devices, SharePoint sites, Active Directory group memberships, mobile computing devices, etc. In particular, it’s…Intel Subsidiary Platform Enables Rockwell Collins SecureOne Products
Published on 8 Nov, 2011 at 11:55 in Industry News | Viewed 18 times | No Comments
Rockwell Collins has selected the VxWorks MILS Platform, made by Intel-owned subsidiary Wind River, to enable Rockwell Collins’ SecureOne Processor and SecureOne Guard, cross domain components that are part company’s line of high assurance technologies for military tactical systems.
A Wind River statement says the MILS Platform was selected because its architecture allows for the development of high…
HP Expanding Services for Better Customer Experience
Published on 7 Nov, 2011 at 16:53 in Industry News | Viewed 24 times | No Comments
HP today announced additions to its portfolio of solutions and services for telecom companies, helping them to drive business growth with better management of service quality for customers. The firm is enhancing solutions in its operational support system and actionable customer intelligence portfolios. HP is also adding new consulting capabilities to help communications service…
SAP Offers New Platform for Mobile Apps
SAP today announced its partners will be delivering and building its apps on Sybase Unwired Platform. More than 100 mobile apps will be showcased at the SAPPHIRE NOW + Sap TechEd event in Madrid, Spain from Nov. 8-10. Attendees will have the opportunity to see app demonstrations and numerous presentations, as well…
Symantec Conducts Site Vulnerability Testing, Finds Nearly Half to be at Remedial Risk
Symantec has released its assessment of its Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer, Premium and Secure Site Pro certificate customers. The service enables quick identification and remediation of the most exploitable weaknesses on public-facing Web pages, Web-based applications, server software and network ports.
Since launching the system in October, the company has scanned nearly 2,000 web sites for critical vulnerabilities that…
General Dynamics Partners to Expand Sensor Information System Capabilities
Published on 7 Nov, 2011 at 15:10 in C4ISR | Viewed 23 times | No Comments
General Dynamics Canada has extended its partnership with defense, government and utilities applications firm Envitia to build on the success of its tactical integrated sensor information system, which uses Envitia’s MapLink Pro software to provide surveillance tools to military aircraft.
TISIS’ digital map virtually presents situational awareness data collected from multiple aircraft sensor systems, including:
radar electro-optics electronic support measures acoustics magnetic anomaly detectorsThe system…
Hughes System Selected for Airborne ISR Contract; Rick Lober Comments on Real-Time Applications
Published on 7 Nov, 2011 at 13:16 in C4ISR | Viewed 31 times | No Comments
Hughes Network Systems has won a contract to provide the necessary satellite communications for a government agency to use an airborne solution for in-flight intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Contract work will include air segment, ground segment and network management services.
The solution will employ Hughes’ advanced HX system, which “is ideal for airborne systems as it…
Test Report: Raytheon Sensors Track Multiple Ballistic Missiles from Air
Published on 7 Nov, 2011 at 12:56 in C4ISR | Viewed 12 times | No Comments
During a test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, Raytheon-produced airborne sensors successfully and precisely tracked multiple ballistic missiles from an airborne platform, according to a report from Military & Aerospace Electronics.
Skyler Frink writes that four of the company’s multispectral targeting system-B electro-optical infrared sensors tracked multiple targets and sent important information to airborne processors for post-test analysis.
Frink…
