http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123444424 4/7/2015 – HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. — The Air Force Vulnerability Management team, a program office within Hanscom AFB’s Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence Infrastructure Division, received an Elite 6 Award during a C4ISR and Networks Conference today in Crystal City, Va. The 25-member team was recognized for their efforts within the cyber field, one of six main […]

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/412/3831728/Nick-Guertin-Office-of-the-Deputy-Assistant-Secretary-of-the-Navy http://media.dev-cms.com/wtop/37/3738/373834.mp3 The Navy is applying its 20-year-old open systems architecture strategy to a new class of ships. The OSA strategy tackles acquisition and system development in a modular way, so the Navy can customize weapon systems and designs throughout the lifecycle of the program. Nick Guertin is director of transformation in the Office of the Deputy […]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/31/more-clarity-on-paypals-infrastructure-vmware-versus-openstack/ Last week when I wrote a post detailing PayPal‘s move to 100 percent OpenStack in its infrastructure, I caused howls of protest from VMware. The protests were understandable, partly because the situation is more complex than one would initially think but also because VMware VMW +0.11% is in a tricky position. It is certainly unpalatable having commentators shine a light on the fact that solutions […]

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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.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128440 By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, March 24, 2015 – Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen held a media roundtable recently to discuss progress on elements of his department’s transition to an information environment that’s faster, safer and less expensive for the DoD. The Joint Information Environment is a framework for […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128433 http://www.defense.gov/documents/DoD-CIO-Memo_Subj_Shielding_DoD_and_Family_from_Phishing_dtd_20150318.pdf By Terri Moon CronkDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, March 23, 2015 – Defense Department employees and their families should be vigilant when guarding personal and work information from expanding cyber-criminal activity, and to know how to recognize scammer tactics, according to DoD’s chief information officer. Terry A. Halvorsen issued a DoD-wide memorandum […]

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 […]