Who are the US alllies? Throughout history, the United States has joined forces with other countries to work toward shared objectives and safeguard core values. These foreign relations play a role in shaping America’s foreign policy and maintaining national security. Recently, the U.S. has highlighted its commitment to alliance partners by recognizing their strides in […] More

Seminars, workshops, conferences, and other large events or gatherings have been prohibited in the past few months due to the danger brought by the Covid19 pandemic. It indeed affects many people, especially those that are into organizing events. Although the event planning industry has been in a rough situation, event organizers are able to adapt […] More

Stephanie O’Sullivan, former principal deputy director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has joined the advisory board of Herndon, Virginia-based communications and technology services contractor Peraton. The company said Thursday O’Sullivan led information technology integration efforts during her time as PDDNI, the second-highest position in the U.S. intelligence community. In that capacity, she also led […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won two contracts worth a combined $57 million to provide supercomputers to the U.S. Navy and Air Force Research Laboratory as part of the Defense Department‘s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. HPE said Tuesday it will deliver four HPE SGI 8600 computer systems to AFRL’s DoD Supercomputing Resource Center and another three to the Navy’s DSRC. […] More

CSRA has led an industry team in efforts to boost the computing capacity of the National Institutes of Health‘s supercomputing cluster. The company said Wednesday it installed the second computing power increment to the Biowulf supercomputing system designed to run computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and other biomedical research efforts. The second increment follows […] More

Eric Barton, former lead architect of Intel‘s high performance data division, has joined DataDirect Networks as chief technology officer of its software-defined storage portfolio. DDN said Wednesday his new role entails oversight of strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for the company’s newly formed Infinite Memory Engine business unit. “Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding […] More

Saab and Embraer have introduced a new hub for technology development in Brazil with domestic partner industries and institutions that include AEL Sistemas, Atech, Akaer and the country’s air force. Embraer said Tuesday the Gripen Design and Development Network in Sao Paulo will cover the development environment and simulators necessary to perform fighter development work as […] More

DataDirect Networks has been selected to store video surveillance data generated by the Public Transport Authority’s network of surveillance cameras in Perth, Australia. DDN’s video surveillance and storage archive system is designed to store up to 20 petabytes of data, the company said Monday. PTA intends for the centralized video surveillance storage to help detect […] More

DataDirect Networks will provide its cloud and big data storage technologies and other tools to Public Health England for the U.K. agency’s genome sequencing service on pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The company said Tuesday PHE will use its Storage Fusion Architecture engine, EXAScaler Lustre File System Appliance and WOS Object Storage platform to deliver the Next-Generation Sequencing Processing and […] More

Cisco Vice President and Treasurer Roger Biscay has joined the DataDirect Networks board of directors, saying he saw an opportunity to help “bring about major change in the way that data is managed the web scale and HPC markets.” The company said that the capital markets, corporate finance and “business resiliency” veteran was one of its […] More

DataDirect Networks and Active Archive Alliance have forged a data storage team in a move that Molly Rector, DDN chief marketing officer, says is aimed to help clients meet data management demands. DDN intends for the partnership to deliver data storage services from high performance platforms to archive storage, the company said Wednesday. Floyd Christofferson, […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More