Microsoft gets into the smarter city game
CityNext will help cities choose a combination of cloud technology, mobile devices, data analytics, and social networks to tackle the challenges of urbanization.
After major disasters, geospatial cloud to the rescue
An industry/government consortium has begun testing a cloud infrastructure that would let international teams share information after events like the Haiti earthquake.
SGI's ICE heats up DOD's Spirit supercomputer
The new system, the fastest dedicated to DOD, boosts performance by over 27 percent and is already being put to wide use.
Red Hat puts Linux into the OpenStack cloud
Company combines its Enterprise Linux with OpenStack to give organizations a Linux option for building their clouds.
Partnership boosts geospatial data sharing across jurisdictions
NISC adopts Esri's ArcGIS Online platform for Homeland Security's Virtual USA Program, which provides a 3-D platform of interactive maps showing critical assets during emergencies.
Overlooked questions to ask before jumping into the cloud
Agencies can tap into a wide range of on-demand services by tackling a few key questions upfront.
The rising danger to data is making KMIP important
The evolving key management standard is gaining traction in the cloud as a way to ensure security across varied infrastructures.
Navy's new NAVGEM sharpens its global weather forecasting
A Naval Research Lab team develops a more efficient set of algorithms to increase the resolution of its maps.
Ranking the world's best big data supercomputers
The Graph 500 ranks HPC systems not by petaflops, but on how well they handle data-intensive workloads. Livermore's Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene Q system, leads the pack.
CIA, NSA see benefits in double-barreled approach to the cloud
The intell community's two-pronged approach will free agencies from the "tyranny of the one," the CIA's chief technology officer says.
Then and now: The fastest supercomputers 30 years apart
While marking GCN's 30th year, we're taking a look at how far computing has progressed in three decades. Here's a look at the most powerful supercomputers of 1982 and 2012.
CloudBolt puts multiple cloud and IT resources into a unified view
The company's C2, selected as the cloud manager for Dell's government service, speeds up delivery of private and hybrid clouds and lets IT managers identify, track and control IT resources.
Can the cloud provide the best strategy for security?
New, layered attacks call for intelligence-based security, and cloud computing offers a way to gather and analyze big data to spot malicious activity.
China’s Tianhe-2 takes supercomputing lead, but should US worry?
The country's new Tianhe-2 system leapfrogs the Energy Department’s Titan, but it's just one wrinkle in the move toward new techniques and, eventually, exascale computing.
Energy lab team explores new ways of analyzing social media
The SALSA tool developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory taps the lab's supercomputing power to pore over billions of posts in seconds.
NIST draws up a security architecture for cloud computing
The agency has released a draft of a cloud security architecture intended to provide the security needed to speed government adoption of cloud computing.
Dell launches secure cloud tailored for U.S. agencies
The Dell cloud offers options for on-premise, private and hybrid clouds as well as multitenant environments. It meets NIST and DOD security requirements and is undergoing FedRAMP certification.
New encryption method promises end-to-end cloud security
MIT researchers develop a new functional-encryption scheme that could process cloud data while keeping it encrypted.
Could movable, modular data centers be the future?
Units that can be added as needed can save on construction and engineering costs while giving agency IT staff flexibility.
The great evolving, dissolving government data center
A 30-year timeline of key developments in hardware, software and virtualization.
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