DLT Solutions has signed an agreement to distribute Red Hat‘s enterprise-grade products in Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud marketplace for government organizations and regulated industries. DLT said Thursday it has collaborated with Red Hat over the past four years in efforts to help customer agencies adopt cloud technology and will offer the latter’s technologies via DLT managed services for the […] More

Accenture and Thales have partnered to demonstrate a blockchain-based supply chain security platform at the Farnborough Air Show. The prototype system, based on Linux‘s Hyperledger Fabric project, uses blockchain, internet-of-things and other technologies to detect, trace and authenticate aircraft components, Accenture said Monday. The system is intended to provide a unified view of the supply […] More

ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More

Amazon Web Services has included Amazon machine images or AMIs, which are master images for the creation of virtual servers, for deep learning in the AWS GovCloud, a cloud region built for sensitive data and regulated workloads. The AMIs are designed to provide a platform wherein developers would construct artificial intelligence applications based on deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Apache […] More

The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information to support plans to transfer its enterprise endpoint security system to a cloud environment certified by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The migration of the Enterprise Anti-Virus Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System will include operations and maintenance support for the current environment and […] More

The General Services Administration and IBM have reached a government enterprise agreement for the company’s database platforms under the Information Technology Schedule 70 Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act Enhancement Program. Alan Thomas, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said in a statement published Wednesday the delivery of database platforms through a single enterprise-level contract would help […] More

The Center for Internet Security has added its “hardened” virtual images to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud marketplace for U.S. government customers. CIS said Wednesday its CIS Hardened Images are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) marketplace and have been accessible to other customers through the AWS Marketplace since 2015. CIS Hardened Images are types of Amazon Machine Images […] More

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new features of its cloud security platform during the company’s Epic Cloud Security Event held Tuesday. The Next-Generation Security Platform will work to expand cloud workload protections to Google‘s cloud platform and offer added security for Amazon Web Services‘ and Microsoft‘s respective cloud environments, Palo Alto Networks said Tuesday. The new tools include […] More

Red Hat has obtained another Common Criteria Certification for its Enterprise Linux 7.1 operating system. BSI, Germany’s federal information security office, issued the certification under the General-Purpose Operating System Protection Profile 3.9 that sets security requirements for OS fielded in public utilities, telecommunications, health care and other critical infrastructure, Red Hat said Wednesday. Paul Smith, […] More

IBM has unveiled a new server platform designed to help enterprise customers process and manage data-intensive artificial intelligence and cognitive computing workloads. AC922 Power Systems are built with IBM’s POWER9 processor and designed to accelerate training on deep learning processes by approximately four times, the company said Dec. 5. The processor currently powers the Energy Department‘s high-performance […] More

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built supercomputer took off aboard a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of SpaceX’s 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer is part of a one-year experiment that HPE will conduct with NASA to […] More

“The industry is our oyster. Open source is the industry’s software technology of choice.”   ExecutiveBiz: What does your role as the leader of business development for the public sector entail? Lynne Chamberlain: I started with Red Hat 13 years ago and moved to the North American Public Sector Organization two years later. I currently fill […] More