http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/24/good-bye-vmware-hello-openstack-paypal-axes-virtualization-giant/ A couple of years ago (almost to the day) Forbes covered the suggestion that PayPalwas going to drop VMware from its infrastructure in favor of OpenStack. The article actually impacted upon VMware’s VMW +0.65% share price for a time and it only surfaced later that PayPal was only making an initial foray into OpenStack. VMware breathed a sigh of relief. VMware will be catching its […]

http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=air-force-transition-adjusts-cyber-age The U.S. Air Force is striving to become a multi-domain warfighting unit in the air, in space and in cyber, according to its chief information officer. However, attaining the same degree of supremacy in cyber that it currently enjoys in the air domain may prove a far more daunting task. As do its sister […]

https://gigaom.com/2015/03/05/red-hats-new-operating-system-will-power-up-your-containers/ Open-source software giant Red Hat said on Thursday that its new operating system custom made to power Linux containers is now available to download. Red Hat has been a big proponent of Docker and its container packing technology going back as far as last summer touting its support of the startup and making sure its Enterprise Linux 7 product was […]

http://gcn.com/articles/2015/02/26/plugfest-plus.aspx By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 26, 2015 The Air Force is testing a new acquisition approach that would enable vendors to have contracts in hand just weeks after demonstrating their potential solutions. The approach comes in the form of PlugFest Plus (PFP), an event similar to other PlugFests but with one major difference: the contracting […]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-pumps-4-billion-into-strategic-imperatives-1424959681 International Business Machines Corp. is in the same bind as many of its corporate-tech peers: how to foster fast-growing but unproven initiatives while lucrative older businesses are slowing down. Having identified a set of promising new directions, the company plans to invest more in them. At an annual meeting with analysts Thursday, the company announced […]

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1742 By Sandra I. Erwin  Its aircraft fleet averages 27 years of age and rival nations are rapidly modernizing, but the U.S. Air Force is not rushing to commit to futuristic weapon systems. The Pentagon’s budget proposal for 2016 seeks more than $48 billion for new aircraft production and upgrades. It is buying airplanes that […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128234 By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2015 – The Defense Department is seeking novel ideas to shape its future, and officials are looking to industry, small business, academia, start-ups, the public –- anyone, really –- to boost its ability to prevail against adversaries whose access to technology grows daily. An […]

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 […]