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A Business Model for an Interoperable World Author: RTI       You CAN develop interoperable systems affordably. Use the new RTI open source model. RTI helps you sustain your software development culture affordably so you can concentrate on high-quality, reliable, and effective interoperable systems. The RTI Infrastructure Community program includes an option for a completely free version of RTI Connext DDS. Commercial RTI products use a simple, predictable, and easily-scaled pricing model.

The Case for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Personal Identity Verification-Interoperability (PIV-I) Identity Credentials Author: AFCEA       The federal government is making strides to implement identity management activities that will streamline the citizen user experience connecting to electronic government information and services. This paper highlights several challenges, discusses options for resolution, and provides recommendations on a way ahead for federal and commercial sector consideration for using PIV-I.

Secure Mobility Author: AFCEA       Mobile technology is a pervasive driver for innovation, agility, and flexibility in the workplace for both the U.S. Government and industry. This report documents the demographic and key findings of an AFCEA Cyber Committee industry survey modified from a survey prepared by the Federal CIO Council.

Risk Mitigation in the Electric Power Sector: Serious Attention Needed Author: AFCEA       The Electric Power critical infrastructure is unique in that it supports all 17 other critical infrastructure and key resource sectors. Today's complex, digital world simply requires electric power for all or certain aspects of most business and consumer activities. This whitepaper examines the risk associate with loss of electric power.

Recommended Best Practices for the Design of Secure Multi-Domain KVM and Video Routing Systems Author: Thinklogical       When mission-critical applications for C4ISR are involved, system integrators and administrators understand that it is essential to provide users with secure and high performance KVM and video extension and routing systems that leave little room for downtime. This white paper from Thinklogical outlines the best practices for designing and implementing secure visual computing environments for command and control that meet demanding Information Assurance standards.

Moving Big Data at Maximum Speed Over Wide Area Networks Author: ASPERA, Inc.       In this digital world, fast and reliable movement of digital data, including massive file sizes over global distances is vital to business success. However TCP has inherent bottlenecks in performance especially for networks with high round-trip time (RTT) and packet loss. Aspera's patented fasp(TM) transfer technology is an innovative software that eliminates the fundamental shortcomings of conventional, TCP-based file transfer technologies to maximize the utilization of available bandwidth and deliver unmatched transfer speeds with guaranteed delivery time regardless o ...

Taking Big Data to the Cloud Author: ASPERA, Inc.       Cloud computing has become a viable, mainstream solution for pay as you go data processing, storage and distribution. However, companies that work with big data have been unable to realize the clouds full potential, due to the inherent performance bottlenecks of moving big data in, out and across cloud infrastructures using TCP and HTTP. Aspera has solved the big data challenge with next generation transfer technology available on demand as a subscription service.

Looking for the Right Answers in the Clouds Author: AFCEA       Everyones talking about Big Data today. Is Big Data a buzz word, real phenomenon, or next evolution in our world? In this AFCEA white paper, we surveyed many notable experts to gain perspectives on Big Data. This paper serves as a primer on Big Data characteristics and provides insights into technology challenges and solutions. The intent is to help federal agencies, companies, and communities develop new solutions for consuming, storing, processing, and analyzing Big Data in order to find the right answers needed to accomplish the mission, gain competitive advant ...

Supply Chain Risk Management Awareness Author: AFCEA       Continued globalization marks todays information and communications technology (ICT) marketplace. Mission critical systems and networks extensively leverage commercial, globally interconnected and globally sourced components. These components include hardware, software and firmware and while global sourcing provides innumerable economic and innovative benefits, it also provides our adversaries with increased opportunity to compromise the supply chains of our critical systems.

Understanding Adoption Trends and Storage Requirements of Virtual Desktop Environments Author: Arrow       IDC OPINION Centralized virtual desktops (CVDs) (also commonly referred to as virtual desktop infrastructure [VDI]) is a relatively young and rapidly growing segment of the IT industry. User adoption and deployment preferences are still evolving. As such, an analysis of the most prevalent use cases for the technology and the most valuable technology attributes are important in understanding how technology suppliers and firms adopting CVD can best work together to ensure successful deployments. For CVD proof of concepts (POCs), storage infrastructure can present both ec ...