Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The State Department, fresh off the heels of a highly publicized cyberintrusion, is picking industry’s brain for tactics to block and perhaps strike back at hackers, according to new contracting documents. State wants to produce a new set of how-to “playbooks” around cybersecurity “to clearly guide both offensive cyber operations […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. In an effort to encourage the sharing of data, information and information technology services across the Defense Department, DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen issued a memo directing military departments, defense agencies and others to adopt standardized, machine-readable information exchange practices. According to an Aug. 3 […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Suddenly, everyone is getting their head around containers. One recent survey projects that 69 percent of companies will embrace them in the next year for production environments. To better understand why containers are gaining so much mindshare, OpenStack just published a paper you can download titled “Exploring Opportunities: Containers […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event, the head of the OpenStack Foundation announces new nonprofit status and developer initiatives. OpenStack continues to move forward, even as new technologies like containers enter the cloud virtualization landscape. At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event on Aug. 26, OpenStack supporters discussed […]

Revelant links are at the bottom of this post The DIUx will position the Department of Defense to be more open to the infusion of non-traditional technical ideas and talent.  The initiative is designed to create a hub for increased communication with, knowledge of, and access to innovating, high-tech start-up companies and entrepreneurs and their […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department’s information technology arm has unveiled a guide for IT shops in the defense and military space planning a move to the cloud. Released by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” wanting to migrate an existing information system from […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Peter thanks for the heads up. It’s a predictable argument: Should the techies — with their hands on their keyboards — be the people who decide which technology or deployment is right for the company? Or should CIOs and senior management — with their strategic perspective […]

Relevant link(s) are at the bottom of this post. These are still early days in the Air Force’s efforts to recapitalize its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) program, but some things already are clear. Since it was first deployed in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, JSTARS has successfully tracked ground vehicles and aircraft, […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Information Systems Agency on July 24 issued three new documents targeting cloud security, including two new requirements guides and a new concept of operations. The three new documents more thoroughly define cloud security and the steps to achieving it, outlining the responsibilities of the organizations and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Today Google is becoming a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, an industry effort dedicated to creating an open infrastructure-as-a-service stack for enterprises.  We’re excited to add our expertise in container-oriented computing to one of the most widely-adopted private cloud stacks, while improving interoperability between private and […]