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US Federal and State and Local government IT professionals are faced with daunting challenges and problems today: In a few words, provide better, more secure services while working with heavier workloads, finite floor space and limited power. Oh, yeah, and do it for much less than you are doing it for today.
Of the many buzz phrase solution sets to solve these problems in government -- Cloud, Virtualization and Open Source Software come up as discussion points. These topics, however, are interrelated and in best practice are interdependent of each other.
Red Hat, the world's most successful Open Source Software Company is announcing a broad virtualizaiton strategy that will deliver performance, stability, scalability and security. Heretofore, customers were asked to sacrifice one for the other. By leveraging the industry’s most stable and secure computing platform, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® powered by kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) virtualization, the Linux kernel is transformed into a fully featured, high-performance, and secure hypervisor. By sharing Red Hat's broad hardware and ISV ecosystem this will greatly expand the market adoption as well.
For more information on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio and how it can improve efficiencies in your agency, please visit http://www.redhat.com/virtualization-strategy/.
Respectfully,
Paul Smith, GM & VP, Public Sector Sales Operations
Date: June 11, 2009
This annual event, hosted by the Information Technology Security Office, is intended to raise computer security awareness for Census employees and contractors. Security Awareness Day will feature various speakers from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as other government agencies and industry. In the past, speakers have included the Chief of IT Security for Census, Associate Director for Information Technology and CIO for Census, Chief Privacy Officer for Census and Computer Security for National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Date: June 16, 2009
A new administration, evolving IT policies and priorities, and dynamic technology tools are changing the way we communicate, collaborate, and serve citizens. Government 2.0 presents new opportunities and challenges. Join the leading IT security and management pros from all levels of government at this one-day event. Learn, teach, and share your experience and knowledge.
Date: June 28 - July 1, 2009
Join us as ISTE looks back on 30 amazing years of change and innovation in Ed Tech—and more importantly, as we look forward to the years ahead.
It is with excitement each year that we plan the next conference and then watch as the seeds planted at NECC begin to grow and take root throughout the year. ISTE members, friends and colleagues in education, are the catalysts who take the knowledge and creativity from all who converge at NECC back to your classrooms, libraries, offices or labs, and continue to build on the energy that is the NECC conference.
Come to the United States capital, June 28—July 1, 2009, to soak up the city and meet colleagues from around the world as we share our continued vision for the future of Ed Tech.
Date: July 8, 2009
Time: 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4 New York)
In light of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, many IT teams are understandably concerned about the future of their Sun Solaris investments. In this live web conference, Red Hat solutions architects Greg Pryzby and Dave Egts will share why they believe Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a superior alternative and answer your questions about both operating systems.
As many as 50 of its customers have begun building private compute clouds using Red Hat Linux, says Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. A few are investigating "semi-private clouds," in which they plan to share IT resources with trusted partners. Read More.
Open-source software advocates are feeling energized. With the first semi-geek president in power, one who wields a cudgel for the kind of transparency and accountability that the open-source community is based on, they see a golden opportunity to push their case for the type of software that allows anyone to contribute code subject to the scrutiny of their peers. Read More.
In his six years as commander and several more as deputy of PEO-C3T, Justice has learned a few tricks that other government information technology executives would do well to follow, including how to get the most from the resources one has, knowing what risks are worth taking and shaping new technology to serve a missionŐs needs, not the other way around. He has also become a vocal proponent of open-source software because of its flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Read More.
As budgets get tighter and IT demands increase, many states and government agencies are looking to Red Hat for low cost Open Source solutions. We're well-known for our Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, but with the release of Red Hat Enterprise IPA, now is the perfect time to consider Red Hat for your Systems and Identity Management solutions.
Government agencies trust JBoss Enterprise Middleware not just for development, but for production deployment of their mission critical application and services. Why? Enterprise class performance and scalability. Shorter development cycles and faster time-to-market. Industry leading support. And of course, outstanding value.
Agencies require business and technology solutions that enable price and performance gains, cutting-edge flexibility, and proven stability to power the most sophisticated technology environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an open source alternative to the proprietary lock-in of legacy Unix systems. The openness of Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides government agencies the building blocks to respond rapidly to changes in IT requirements-whether they are adding new features to existing solutions or new applications.
Red Hat open source solutions for healthcare provide the reliability, security, and interoperability needed to deliver safe, quality patient care. Used by organizations such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Florida Hospital, and Highmark, Red Hat technologies power clinical applications in life critical environments. Solution providers such as McKesson, GE Healthcare, CPSI, and InterSystems have adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss middleware for reliable, secure infrastructure without sacrificing affordability.
Hill AFB's existing system went down eight times in three months. With about 18,000 users on base, many of whom are doing highly sensitive and deadline-driven work, it can cost up to $1 million per hour when Hill's systems are down.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux stood out as the only Linux that was able to meet security concerns. In addition to having enhanced security, Red Hat's solutions were much more economical than others. To sustain the existing environment and increase capability, it would have cost Hill a minimum of $5 million per year to use Solaris. Red Hat Enterprise Linux cost $100,000, just two percent of the cost of the old operating system.
Read more at redhat.com or read about how Hill Air Force Base streamlines systems and improves aircraft maintenance at GCN.com.
Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications.
"We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice."
- Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs. Analysts used to need multiple computers because they worked on separate machines for each classification level of data they accessed. Soon, users will be able to access data from a single console that could cost $500 or less, thanks to the NSA security architecture dubbed Flask.
With Flask, "we can guarantee that high-integrity data can't be corrupted by untrustworthy entities or that sensitive data doesn't leak to untrustworthy entities," said Stephen Smalley, one of the chief developers of Flask at NSA. The best part is that the technology requires no specialized hardware or operating system.
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The Defense Information Systems Agency has certified the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system as being ready for swapping Internet Protocol version 6 packets with other Defense Department servers, Red Hat announced this week.
The software meets the requirements of the IPv6 Master Test Plan, a program initiated by DOD's Office of the Chief Information Officer, as well as by the Chief Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.
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Managing and retrieving personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers requires an enterprise solution that delivers quick and reliable access to those records. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS meets those requirements, and soldiers stationed around the globe can now access their records reliably and securely anytime, any place.
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