Autonomic Resources is now a certified Red Hat partner and cloud solutions provider to the federal market, Autonomic announced Tuesday. Paul Smith, Red Hat’s public sector business vice president and general manager, said the companies have previously partnered to produce solutions such as Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Smith said the addition [...]
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The Farm Service Agency wants industry advice on how to deliver geospatial imagery data through a cloud-based web service. In a Thursday request for information, the FSA asked vendors to to submit commercially-available technology that can support imagery data. The agency awards contracts on a three-year cycle under the National Agriculture Imagery Program, managed and distributed through the [...]
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Intelligence agencies will have to collaborate on solutions and policies as they transition to cloud computing, a panel of intelligence officials said Friday. The panel addressed an AFCEA briefing in Arlington, Va., Defense Systems reports. Neill Tipton, director of information sharing and partner engagement for the deputy defense under secretary for joint and coalition warfighter support, [...]
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Earlier this year, the Army awarded a $250 million contract to assist with the elimination of 185 data centers by 2015. The move correlates with the Army’s goal of centralizing centers in fewer locations and maximizing potential of computing power and storage, Defense System reports. Lockheed Martin, HP Enterprise Services, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman [...]
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The Navy has opened the first of its three planned ethanol fueling stations in Hawaii, the Navy announced Saturday. Naval Facilities Engineering Command plans for the three Ethanol 85 stations to power the Navy’s flex-fuel vehicle fleet at Joint Base Peal Harbor-Hickam. The base operates 1,000 cars that can burn E85, according to Capt. John [...]
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Lockheed Martin has released an academic version of its virtual simulation software for students. The Bethesda, Md.-based company said Monday that Prepar3d provides users with problem solving situations through virtual training. According to the company, virtual environments can range from underwater to suborbital space. Those environments also can include real-life elements like vehicles, people, wildlife and [...]
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Google plans to release a cloud-based big data service for analyzing large sets of data from external sources, Information Week reports. The Internet company told GigOm Structure Data conference attendees it is offering its Google Big Query solution in a limited beta preview, according to the report. The big data solution allows users to analyze [...]
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