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 […]

Jackpine Technologies welcomes Todd Fisher as the newest member of our team. Todd is a former federal employee that most recently worked for the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. Todd joins our community and project management teams.

The latest CONS3RT release brings commercial cloud support, elastic test resources, improved messaging, and a number of other improvements and enhancements. Detailed changes include: Commercial Cloud Support – Full support for commercial cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, VMware VCGS and others. Elastic Test Resources – Automated provisioning of temporary test tools within the local […]

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Jackpine Technologies a contract that provides government customers flexible options for utilizing CONS3RT government cloud support. The contract is managed out of Hanscom Air Force Base and will enable government customers to directly reach Jackpine Technologies for support that includes: CONS3RT cloud orchestration and cloud services software and […]

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 […]