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Baby Steps in Mobility: Pentagon OKs Dell-Only Android
Published on 28 Dec, 2011 at 11:30 in Mobility | Viewed 19 times | No Comments
The Defense Department is allowing a second mobile platform to access its networks, but it is not quite yet a “bring your own device” approach.
The Pentagon’s Security Technical Implementation Guide covers Dell’s version of Android 2.2, according to Stars and Stripes. This version is the only Pentagon-approved version.
Dell’s Venue smartphone is…
RedHatGov Symposium Highlights Roadmap to the 25 Point Plan, Open Source
Published on 22 Nov, 2011 at 14:07 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 61 times | No Comments
About this time last week, FedScoop and Red Hat were wrapping up the 2011 Red Hat Government Symposium at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Red Hat provided continual updates during the event on its Twitter account, RedHatGov, highlighting key speakers and remarks.
FedScoop, the event sponsor, reported some 300 government and industry leaders to be in attendance. The…
NASA Planning Cloud Storefront for Scientists
Published on 14 Nov, 2011 at 16:09 in Cloud | Viewed 21 times | No Comments
NASA is planning to offer the agency’s scientists a cloud marketplace, or storefront, allowing them to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from any location.
NASA is cited as a success story in government cloud computing for its Nebula cloud computing platform, a private cloud platform using open source software, according to a report in
Red Hat, SAIC Collaborating to Make Open Source More Accessible; Paul Smith Comments
Red Hat and SAIC have agreed to collaborate to create solutions that will try to maximize open source cloud computing technologies that are scalable, secure, interoperable and portable.
The companies’ goal is to reduce infrastructure costs and ease the Defense Department‘s adoption of cloud computing.
Through the collaboration, Red Hat solutions will help progress…
IBM, Eurotech Developing Software for Next Gen Mobile Devices
Published on 4 Nov, 2011 at 12:55 in Industry News | Viewed 23 times | No Comments
IBM and Italian firm Eurotech announced they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices.
The technology will be made available to the open source community of the Eclipse Foundation, founded by IBM in 2001.
The contributed Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol is in use today among some…
Red Hat Extends Open Source Teaching Program To School Year
Published on 4 Aug, 2011 at 14:31 in Industry News | Viewed 22 times | No Comments
Red Hat announced today the expansion of its Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience 2011, a program for professors from any discipline interested in introducing open source software into their students’ coursework.
According to Red Hat, due to the overwhelming success of this year’s summer weekend workshop, which was held in Raleigh, N.C., several POSSE activities are scheduled…
DoD, DOE Score High on Transparency, Open Source Use
Published on 9 Mar, 2011 at 13:09 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 60 times | 1 Comment
The departments of Defense, Energy, HHS and Homeland Security have ranked the highest when it comes to transparency and the use of open source, according to a new survey by Open Source for America.
The Federal Open Technology Report Card examined key indicators of open government and open technologies developed through…
Team Kuwait Hackers Shut Down Israeli Websites
A number of Israeli websites were compromised over the weekend by a group that calls itself Team Kuwait Hackers and claims to be the best hackers in the world.
Debbie Goldsmith, a director at the site Aardvark Israel, told The Jerusalem Post that instead of providing information about gap-year programs in Israel, the site on Saturday displayed “a countdown and a clickable button, accompanied by…
Red Hat Buys Cloud Software Vendor Makara
Published on 1 Dec, 2010 at 9:59 in Industry News | Viewed 25 times | No Comments
Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. announced it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud.
Makara’s technologies will speed up the development of Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio.
“Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud,”…
Red Hat Names Mark Bohannon VP of Corp. Affairs & Public Policy
Published on 8 Sep, 2010 at 14:04 in Industry News | Viewed 46 times | No Comments
Mark Bohannon is joining Red Hat, the open source solutions provider, as vice president of corporate affairs and global public policy, effective Oct. 1, 2010.
In his new role, Bohannon will lead Red Hat’s worldwide team representing the company’s interests before policymakers in government, industry consortia, and other venues on issues related to technology and innovation policy, open source and…
