Red Hat Achieves 7 NIST Info Security Certifications; Paul Smith Comments
Red Hat has achieved seven certifications through a program run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to certify security systems used by federal agencies in the U.S. and Canada. The open source provider achieved the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certifications for its Enterprise Linux 6.2, run on HP ProLiant DL585 and IBM [...]
IBM Launching New Hadoop, Memory Systems for Big Data; Bob Picciano Comments
April 4, 2013 No Comment
IBM has unveiled a new set of technologies and tools intended to help governments and businesses handle structured and unstructured data generated by computers, mobile devices, sensors and social networks. One system, IBM PureData System for Hadoop open source software, designed to organize data such as social media posts, digital pictures and videos, online transaction [...]
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Unisys has updated an operating system with the goal of helping clients update their application environments for mobile access, security and multi-access tools. ClearPath OS 2200 Release 14.0 intends to support open-source development and aims to help clients with Unisys’ ClearPath Dorado 4200 server accommodate up to four host systems running the operating system, Unisys [...]
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Red Hat has taken on a leadership role to manage a Java open source implementation project, aiming to continue supporting the technology and its users. The company is aiming to help steer the development of the OpenJDK 6 project and Andrew Haley, Red Hat Java technical lead, will stay on as a OpenJDK 6 board [...]
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Battelle and Midwest utility AEP have developed open source software using code from an Energy Department national laboratory for a smart grid project in Ohio, Greentech Media reports. Jeff St. John writes the organizations are aiming to develop the program for utility planning and forecasting Jason Black, Battelle grid systems research leader, told the website [...]
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VMware has joined a non-profit institution that advocates for using open source software in government technology systems. The virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure provider, an EMC Corp. subsidiary, joins the Open Source Software Institute as a platinum member, the OSSI said. “VMware has a long history of support for open source software and collaborating with [...]
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Dell, Intel and WestSummit have invested $10 million combined in OpenStack cloud vendor Mirantis, InfoWorld reports. The companies made the investment in hopes of pushing OpenStack as an open source cloud platform for the public and private sector, according to the report. Ted Samson writes Mirantis has worked on 30 deployments over 18 months for customers [...]
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Computer scientists and technicians are claiming NASA does not have a framework for using and developing open source software agency-wide, Fierce Government IT reports. In an article published at IT Professional, Chris Mattman, a NASA senior computer scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said his team found several issues in open sourcing a NASA project. [...]
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BAE Partnership Offering Free Open Source Software To Public; Leigh Palmer Comments
May 21, 2012 No CommentBAE Systems and the Open Information Security Foundation are partnering to provide open source software to the public free of charge, BAE announced Monday. The company will provide some of its intellectual property to the foundation, said Leigh Palmer, vice president of advanced programs for BAE’s IT cybersecurity solutions business. BAE is the first systems [...]
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