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Red Hat Government News is a monthly newsletter designed to provide government agencies worldwide with the latest information on training, offers, events, and news articles.
As we find ourselves in the midst of an exciting summer, Red Hat has an eventful lineup of new programs and activities. We also recently hosted our biggest event of the year, Red Hat Summit 2008, which was a tremendous success.
This year's Summit was about you: Our customers. Our community. Our partners. In each track, you heard stories from other Red Hat customers about how they use today's technology, and information from Red Hat about what we're working to give you in the future. Be sure to visit the Summit 2008 website to learn more about the event speakers, topics of discussion, customer and partner perspectives, and to view the recorded presentations.
At the Summit, we held our largest Government Breakfast yet, which featured our president and CEO Jim Whitehurst and Expeditionary C4I Chief Engineer for SSCC, Michael Howard. Jim discussed his vision for the company and his personal commitment to the government market, while Michael explained how the USMC utilized JBoss solutions to achieve capability integration in a tactical SOA environment.
As always, be sure to check out our event calendar to learn about upcoming government events.
Respectfully,
Paul Smith, General Manager & VP of Public Sector Sales Operations
Red Hat is pleased to announce the results of the 2008 Red Hat Innovation Awards. The Awards provide an opportunity for the Red Hat community to share their stories and be recognized for their commitment to innovating and extending Red Hat technologies. Red Hat customers and partners worldwide were invited to submit a nomination, or be nominated by a development team leader, business partner, or supplier.
This year, 2 out of the 6 awards were given to leaders of the government market, namely Booz Allen Hamilton and IBM and Raytheon Company. Booz Allen Hamilton won the Innovation Award for Superior Alternatives, which recognizes the company with the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives. To learn how they utilized Red Hat solutions to increase their performance and efficiency, click here.
IBM and Raytheon won the Innovation Award for Creative Use, which recognizes the use of unconventional implementations of emerging open source technologies to create unique solutions. Furthermore, congratulations to IBM and Raytheon for winning our overall 2008 Red Hat Innovator of the Year award! From our 6 category winners, they were chosen to win this award for their work with Red Hat, in finding an open-architecture shipboard enterprise network solution for the U.S. Navy. This is the second year in a row that government customers have won this award! To read more, visit http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/innovate/ibm.html.
At this Red Hat Summit, we made a series of exciting announcements around our continuing virtualization strategy.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released nearly 18 months ago and delivered a powerful virtualization solution to every Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer. We've seen Red Hat's integrated virtualization used in all manner of deployments, from single servers used in QA and development environments to large database systems deployed in mission-critical production deployments and all the way up to large-scale cloud deployments.
When we talk to the customers deploying Red Hat virtualization we hear the common themes: they've saved tens of thousands of dollars deploying Red Hat virtualization instead of proprietary products, they've been able to deploy virtualization on new workloads that previously couldn't be virtualized due to performance limitations, such as databases and ERP systems and finally the simplicity of a integrated solution: "it just works!"
With today's announcements we're adding a new stand-alone hypervisor offering and a powerful virtualization management platform. As with all of Red Hat's offerings we've based these on open source and open standards with the core technology developed by the Red Hat sponsored oVirt open source project.
Click here to read the entire article.
After the completion of a successful beta test program that was launched at the RSA security conference in April, version 1.0 of Red Hat Enterprise IPA is now generally available. If you're not familiar with the freeIPA project upon which Red Hat Enterprise IPA is based, it was started about a year ago as an open source, standards-based identity and access management solution for the Unix/Linux environment.
Red Hat used the source from the upstream freeIPA project to build packages that were put through a rigorous quality assurance test cycle. Testing included full alpha and beta programs with a targeted group of customers. A number of different Linux and Unix clients including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX Solaris and HP-UX were used in an effort to ensure support for heterogeneous clients. Customers now have a Red Hat-supported, centralized identity management solution to ease administration of their Linux and Unix users.
Click here to read the entire article.
With Windows predominant in Army battlefield systems, managing two operating systems will create challenges, say experts.
The Defense Department has worked to adopt open software and operating systems for some of its projects, For example, the Army's Future Combat Systems will rely on a Red Hat version of Linux called the "Systems-of-Systems Common Operating Environment."
However, most of the rest of the Army - like most of the world - uses a Microsoft operating system. Windows underpins Blue Force Tracking, a successful military application that traces the location of friendly forces.
"The most likely outcome is that we will have one network that has two environments," said Army Col. Brian Donahue, director of Army LandWarNet G3. Donahue has taken part in a series of conferences taking place in late 2007 and early 2008, convened by Gen. Richard Cody, vice chief of staff of the Army, to address this problem and others. "We will have a Linux-based environment within the FCS portion of the network and Windows will probably be the predominant element in the rest of it."
Click here to read the entire article.
Red Hat recently met the Common Criteria Evaluation at EAL4+/CAPP/RBAC/LSPP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. To learn more, click here.
Join 500 government IT, security, and business professionals from across all levels of government at this free, one-day event and learn about:
Date:
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Location:
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
Click here for more information.
Veterans Affairs Information Technology Connection 2008:VA ITC 2008 highlights the establishment of a single (IT) authority and the consolidation of multiple IT operational and development activities. The conference offers IT training in a forum that encourages interaction between developers of applications, systems architects, users, security experts, other field operations support, and associated business partners. This forum facilitates discussion of ideas, sharing of information, and promotes lessons learned about the current and future approach of IT within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Date:
Tuesday-Thursday, July 8-10, 2008
Location:
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, Maryland
For more information, visit: https://www.technologyforums.com/8VI/index.asp
Today Red Hat announced the settlement of patent litigation involving Firestar Software, Inc. and DataTern, Inc. Below is a detailed FAQ with additional information about today's news.
The lawsuit was originally filed by Firestar Software, Inc. ("Firestar") in 2006 in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas (Civil Action No. 2-06CV-258). It alleged violation of U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502 ("'502 patent"), which relates to a method for interfacing an object-oriented software application with a relational database to facilitate access to the relational database. Firestar contended that Hibernate, a JBoss product, infringed the '502 patent. Red Hat denied that allegation and vigorously contested the claim.
Red Hat defended on the basis that its products had not infringed the patent and that the patent was invalid. The parties exchanged information and numerous documents in discovery. Issues related to construction of the patent claims were briefed and an argument before the federal court was scheduled. The '502 patent was assigned by Firestar to DataTern, Inc. ("DataTern"), which thereafter became involved in the lawsuit. Shortly before the argument, the parties agreed on settlement terms.
