BakBone Announces Enterprise Data Protection Solutions for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5
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| BakBone Software, the leading provider of Linux data protection
| solutions, today announced that NetVault: Backup and NetVault:
| Replicator now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070412005182&newsLang=en
Also from Red Hat, as of yesterday (a very major contract with the
government):
Red Hat Signs Master Marketing Agreement with SAIC
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| Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will
| use their respective expertise to collaborate in the development
| and delivery of reliable open source solutions to customers. This
| collaboration is expected to provide powerful, proven solutions
| for federal agencies looking to improve operational effectiveness
| and productivity.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070411/20070411005340.html?.v=1
This week:
Conference Highlights Open Technology Adoption within Defense and
Intelligence Systems
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| "When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General
| Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the
| U.S. Army is "the" single largest install base for Red Hat Linux.
| I'm their largest customer."
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http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=17056&trv=1
Advanced Info Service Uses Red Hat
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| "AIS is currently the biggest mobile phone operator in Thailand,
| so the availability preference for us is 99.999 percent uptime,"
| said Arakin Rakchittapoke, Infrastructure Platform Development,
| ICTM, AIS. "For every minute of downtime, there is potential for
| 60,000 complaints and we can't have that.
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=121013
Army Seeks to Catalyze Open Source Intelligence
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| A new U.S. Army Field Manual is intended to advance the development
| and use of open source intelligence (OSINT), which is intelligence
| that is derived from publicly available data legally obtained.
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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/01/army_seeks_to_catalyze_open_so.html
A Network Appliance Platform for Linux Applications at the US Department of
Defense
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| U.S. military requirements for network devices are growing more and
| more demanding, making a flexible Linux-based platform the foundation
| of choice.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012207-dod-linux.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
High-integrity software is key topic at 2007 Military Technologies Conference
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| Following Tokar will be Redge Bartholomew, engineering manager at Rockwell
| Collins on "Static Analysis as an Example Approach to High Integrity Open
| Source Software."
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| "Why High Integrity Software Requires Open Source Tools," is the
| presentation of the module's last speaker, Robert Dewar, president and
| chief executive officer of AdaCore.
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http://mae.pennnet.com/display_article/285223/32/NEWS/none/none/High-integrity-software-is-key-topic-at-2007-Military-Technologies-Conference/
Department of Defense Releases Open Technology Development Roadmap
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| According to OSSI, "OTD methodology will enable DoD organizations
| and contractors to rapidly adapt and extend existing software capabilities
| in response to shifting threats and requirements without, being locked in
| to a specific vendor or held hostage to proprietary technologies."
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/233257&from=rss
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