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  • Red Hat Opens Innovation Hub for APAC Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Opens Innovation Hub for APAC Region

    Red Hat has opened an innovation hub in Singapore as part of efforts to help customers in the Asia-Pacific region to develop or update information technology applications with open source and DevOps methods. The company said Monday it established the Open Innovation Labs to offer clients a range of support services intended to address IT and business. Dirk-Peter […] More

  • Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS' Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS’ Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments

    A Red Hat–Kryptowire team has received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop methods to automate compliance of mobile applications with government security and privacy standards. Both companies aim to create a framework for security and privacy compliance automation in the mobile app life cycle as part of the Mobile Application Security project managed by […] More

  • DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts

    The Department of Homeland Security‘ science and technology directorate has awarded $8.6 million in contracts to five research and development projects that aim to help increase the security of mobile applications for the federal government. Recipients of the grants are Apcerto, Lookout, United Technologies Corp.‘s research center, Qualcomm and a Red Hat–Kryptowire team, DHS said Wednesday. The projects […] More

  • Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair

    Narendra Gupta, co-founder and managing director of investment firm Nexus Venture Partners, has been named chairman of the board of directors at open source software provider Red Hat. Red Hat said Tuesday Gupta has served on the company’s board since 2005 and succeeds H. Hugh Shelton, who retired after seven years of chairmanship. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Lynne Chamberlain, VP of Business Development for Red Hat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Lynne Chamberlain, VP of Business Development for Red Hat

    “The industry is our oyster. Open source is the industry’s software technology of choice.”   ExecutiveBiz: What does your role as the leader of business development for the public sector entail? Lynne Chamberlain: I started with Red Hat 13 years ago and moved to the North American Public Sector Organization two years later. I currently fill […] More

  • Red Hat's Paul Smith Receives IES Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Paul Smith Receives IES Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence

    Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s public sector business, has accepted a Lifetime Achievement award from the Institute for Excellence in Sales during a ceremony held June 6 near Washington, D.C. IES chose Smith out of 50 nominees based on criteria such as sales excellence, capacity to train sales leaders and level of achievement over an extended […] More

  • Red Hat's Jim Tyrell: Public Sector Continues Utilization of Java Programming Language - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Jim Tyrell: Public Sector Continues Utilization of Java Programming Language

    Jim Tyrell, a principal architect of JBoss solutions at Red Hat‘s public sector business, has said he observed many government agencies have purchased and implemented the Java programming language in their information technology systems. Tyrell wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on GCN that Java is designed to run on multiple IT systems and has driven the expansion of […] More

  • Red Hat Acquires Codenvy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Acquires Codenvy

    Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a provider of open source solutions, announced Thursday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Codenvy, a provider of cloud-native tools that developers use to create modern container-based and cloud-native applications. Tools like Codenvy allow software engineers to spend less time on environment management, administration and other tasks that take them away […] More

  • Homeland Security Tools Available to Private Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Homeland Security Tools Available to Private Sector

    The Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice office has helped make dozens of technologies developed by government labs or research partners commercially viable, including eight tools licensed by private companies, 15 tools piloted within government or the private sector, and five offered as open source code, said Program Manager Nadia Carlsten Tuesday. Akatosh is […] More

  • DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat's Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Red Hat‘s cloud platform within the laboratory’s compute and data infrastructure to support scientific and computational research projects at ORNL. Red Hat said Monday ORNL uses the company’s OpenStack Platform to provide cloud services in its Compute And Data Environment for Science infrastructure, which is designed to deliver computing, data analytics, […] More

  • AWS to Make Services Accessible in Red Hat's Container Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS to Make Services Accessible in Red Hat’s Container Platform

    Amazon Web Services and Red Hat have collaborated to make AWS services directly accessible within the latter company’s container platform. Red Hat said Tuesday the integration is designed to give customers the capacity to build and extend enterprise applications on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform using various AWS services. OpenShift works to help information technology operations teams create […] More