https://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-walmart/ For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn’t ready for prime time, here’s a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack on its compute layer. And that’s growing by the day. It’s also the technology that ran parent company Walmart’s prodigious Cyber Monday and holiday season sales operations. If that’s not production, I’m not sure what is. San Bruno, California–based […]

http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/emerging-tech-blog/2015/02/dod-cio-talks-emerging-tech/104301/ Rarely has the Defense Department dedicated the kind of time and resources to talking emerging technologies as it did Jan. 29 at an industry-day event, parading a who’s-who of top tech officials to explain the Pentagon’s plans for cloud computing. Held at the Commerce Department headquarters, the event served two purposes. The first was […]

https://code.facebook.com/posts/717010588413497/introducing-6-pack-the-first-open-hardware-modular-switch/ As Facebook’s infrastructure has scaled, we’ve frequently run up against the limits of traditional networking technologies, which tend to be too closed, too monolithic, and too iterative for the scale at which we operate and the pace at which we move. Over the last few years we’ve been building our own network, breaking down […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128083 By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2015 – The Defense Department is moving its data to the cloud, driven by cost reductions, technical efficiencies and security considerations, Acting Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen told military and industry leaders gathered here yesterday. Halvorsen’s office hosted the first of what it […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128067 By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2015 – The severe, multiyear budget cuts of sequestration will have a negative impact on the Defense Department and U.S. military technological superiority, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall told a congressional panel today. Kendall testified before the […]

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/01/cybersecurity-now-key-requirement-for-all-weapons-dod-cio/ WASHINGTON: Cybersecurity — it’s not just for networks anymore. The trend towards what’s called “the Internet of Things” means targets can be anywhere. “If there is a computer in something, it can be cyber-attacked, and we need to be able to harden it and defend it,” the Pentagon’s Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity, Richard Hale, told me on Monday. “Whether the […]

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/past-events/bending-the-cost-curve https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=f1adfc3c39e046b047e4fa0f8f7e05ef&tab=core&_cview=0 pfp_fbo_announcement_plugfest_white_paper.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/FEATURED%20Hanscom%20milCloud%20ASSETS.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/PFP%20Technical%20Summary%20v1.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/PFP%20Technical%20Participation%20v1.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/PFP%20Infrastructure%20Architecture%20v1.png http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/DIBforPFP.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/milCloudOrchestration_101.pdf http://www.afei.org/events/5A09/Documents/milCloudOrchestration_101%20(2).pdf Bending the Cost Curves: PlugFest PLUS January 20, 2015 George Mason University http://www.afei.org/EVENTS/5A09/Pages/default.aspx PlugFest Plus Interviews  https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84359240&x-yt-ts=1421782837&v=ITGaoFISNVo Dr Camron Gorguinpour. Part 1 is 6:17 in length Innovative Army contract vehicle identified beginning at: 3:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjH4dciTRZw Dr Camron Gorguinpour, Part 2 is 4:56 in length https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gghc1GyRso Dr […]

http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123436600 1/16/2015 – WASHINGTON, (AFNS) — Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James announced a new initiative designed to help the Air Force partner with industry, encourage innovation and drive down the cost of systems.James announced the Bending the Cost Curve program at the Atlantic Council here Jan. 14. She called it a targeted initiative that can be […]

http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/cybersecurity/2015/01/12/dod-cloud-security-guidance/21653107/ http://iase.disa.mil/Documents/commercial_cloud_computing_services.pdf http://iase.disa.mil/cloud_security/Documents/u-cloud_computing_srg_v1r1_final.pdf The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is poised to release final security guidance for purchasing cloud services on Tuesday as the Defense Department shifts to commercial providers. After receiving more than 800 comments on the draft guidelines, DISA reorganized the security levels to allow certain work areas to exist in virtual private networks […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123923 http://www.acq.osd.mil/docs/DODI_5000.02_Transmittal_Letter_Signed(7Jan2015).pdf http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/500002p.pdf By Claudette RouloDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2015 – The Defense Department’s top acquisitions official today released a new version of the acquisitions corps’ guiding document: Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System. The updated instruction cancels the interim version that was implemented Nov. 25, […]