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Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recently released a Broad Agency
Announcement soliciting proposals for several types of technologies that they
are looking for in cooperation with the private sector. We are interested in
all forms of disrupting technologies at Crucial Point LLC and after
looking this wish list from SOCOM it is pretty clear they are looking for
disruptive technologies as well. Below is a breakdown of what they are
looking for. If your company can help in any of these fields you can check to
the BAA here.
AREAS OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE FOR SRSE (SPECIAL
RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, & EXPLOITATION)
Tags – Tagging, Tracking, and Locating technologies. SOCOM is looking for
lightweight, low cost, and low energy GPS and non-GPS trackers, biological
and chemical taggers, various beacons, audio and video recor... (more)
Apple has taken the International Trade Commission's month-old decision
finding HTC's Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and
letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).
The patent-watching Foss Patents blog says Apple quietly lodged the appeal on
December 29.
The blog learned from an Apple filing with the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Illinois in a case against Motorola Mobility
that the ITC's administrative law judge had sided with Apple and found HTC
guilty... (more)
Managing access to confidential information and application resources via
firewalls is the foundation of network security, and firewall audits are
central to any mature network security process. However, relying on security
and network experts to review rules across multiple firewall zones and
different firewall products is proving to be costly and ineffective. Few will
dispute that when it comes to network security, automating best practices to
reduce operating costs, complexity, human error, and streamline processes is
a good thing. However, in what we call the age of Continuou... (more)
Joyent's SmartDataCenter IaaS platform is going to be sold to Italian VARs
and service providers by ICOS, an Italian value-added distributor, for
private cloud infrastructure or value-added private cloud services.
SmartDataCenter's local storage is supposed to reduce the TCO of cloud data
centers.
It's designed to manage tens of thousands of virtual machines, a k a
SmartMachines, and supports a multi-tenant PaaS.
ICOS means to develop its own cloud infrastructure for channel partners too
so they don't have to build their own cloud data center.
JoyentCloud.com delivers public clo... (more)
Amazon's cloud, which, let's face it, is still pretty much developer turf,
broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS
Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate
enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud
among the leery.
It's the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the
ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff's targeted at large
corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also
expects resellers to offer the service.
It is of... (more)
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