DLT Solutions and GitHub have partnered to market a programming code management tool for open source and private software development projects in the government sector. DLT said Thursday the GitHub Enterprise platform is an on-premise variant of GitHub.com and works to help developers search, review and share codes. Jim Propps, director of DLT’s enterprise platforms […] More

Hortonworks Inc. has been recognized in The Channel Company‘s 2015 CRN list of emerging vendors that develop and provide new technologies. The Channel Company cited Hortonworks for helping North America-based channel partners to develop services for clients through the Hortonworks Apache Hadoop open platform, Hortonworks said Thursday. “We are honored with this recognition and excited about […] More

Crunchy Data Solutions has launched a new open source database system to help government clients meet relational database requirements for a computer facility. The MLS PostgreSQL database builds on the existing PostgreSQL system and is designed to integrate with Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 6.5+ SELinux functionality, Crunchy said Thursday. Crunchy CEO Bob Laurence said the […] More

A ManTech International Corp. subsidiary has introduced a new version of its automated malware analysis tool intended to help customers detect malware and comply with data protection rules. ManTech Cyber Solutions International designed the Responder PRO Linux Edition for users to analyze physical memory from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS servers, ManTech said Wednesday. “The […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

MeriTalk has released a new report that highlights potential challenges to federal cloud adoption and opportunities to increase the migration rate. The study finds that 75 percent and 53 percent of federal cloud users cite data control retention and long-term contracts, respectively, as factors that prevent them from moving other services into the cloud, MeriTalk said […] More

John Lee serves as vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft, a role he has held since he joined the company in 2011. The nearly-three decade government information technology veteran is responsible for work to deliver the company’s pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies such as VMware, Red Hat, Adobe and Symantec, potential cloud service providers, system integrators and government agencies. Lee previously spent 10 years at FedBid and served as […] More

Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack have joined Google’s open source docker management community. The companies will contribute code to the Kubernetes container management technology and maintain the project as an open container management framework for private, public and hybrid cloud applications, Google said Thursday. Google says the Kubernetes community aims to help […] More

Dell has introduced a range of server products and service offerings intended to help enterprise customers manage computing workloads and infrastructures that run SAP HANA-based applications. SAP has certified Dell’s PowerEdge rack servers to integrate with the HANA in-memory database and also approved Dell’s Compellent platform as a data storage system for HANA, Dell said […] More

DLT Solutions will host an online event May 7 to discuss cybersecurity-related risks and problems that the government is facing. Representatives from companies such as BMC Software, Dell, ForeScout, Oracle, Red Hat, SolarWinds and Symantec are scheduled to attend, DLT announced Thursday. Those companies will focus on continuous monitoring and identity and access management issues in […] More

Intel has launched a new processor family as an update from a previous generation with additional features designed to process large amounts of data and identify insights for business strategies. The Xeon processor E7 v2 processor family is built with a memory capacity of up to 1.5 terabytes per socket and works to support to 15 processing […] More

Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat president and CEO, has said companies now can run a private cloud platform at the same cost for a public cloud environment, Network World reported Friday. Fredric Paul writes that Whitehurst highlighted the size an enterprise must be in order to operate a data center. “The question is, how big does […] More