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Medicaid MITA: Innovative COTS Solutions for IT Risk Management

This paper provides an overview of the MITA Technical Architecture and discusses key areas of potential contribution to implementation of this framework from one the world's leading IT security and infrastructures software solution providers, Symantec. The goal of this paper is to facilitate discussion and familiarization of the Symantec Commercial...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Medicaid, Information Technology, COTS, Healthcare, Security

White papers 2009-08-01

McNealy's back and Obama's got him

McNealy's back and Obama's got himSo government should go into the software business...... in order to reduce the number of jobs in the private sector, by making displacement products for its own use and that of others around the world.Which other large, essential, internationally successful business should the government compete...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, OSS, Obama, government, software

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...

Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

HP-UX 11i V3 and Common Criteria CCOPPOS/ EAL4+: HP-UX 11i V3 Evaluated Against CCOPP-OS Extends the Range of Commercial Operating System Protections

The COTS Compartmentalized Protection Profile - Operating Systems (CCOPP-OS) specifies the extensive range of security requirements necessary to solve the security problem that organizations encounter when trying to implement readily available operating systems to handle compartmentalized environments. Developed using guidance from COTS Security Protection Profile - Operating Systems, CCOPP-OS is...

Tags: Security, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating System, Oracle11i, COTS, CCOPP-OS, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-01

Russia, Georgia and NASA

Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...

Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Performance Review of COTS-Based System Architecture

Commercial, Off-The-Shelf COTS software has gained considerable popularity as an approach that quickly and economically creates software systems that address business requirements. The saved development time and money will be wasted if the performance evaluation of the system is deferred, potentially leading to performance issues in the system. To save...

Tags: System Architecture, Performance, Performance Review, COTS, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-06-01

Designing for Harsh Environments Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf Products

The need for Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS Single Board Computer SBC products continues to grow as higher processing, smaller footprints and lower power requirements become more critical. For design engineers in medical, military, industrial, aeronautics and other fields, the desire for reduced size and heat projection parallels an additional requirement for...

Tags: Environment, COTS, VersaLogic

White papers 2008-06-01

Unmanned Vehicle Systems: Leveraging COTS Software

This paper has illustrated how Oracle Commercial off-The Shelf COTS software, from Oracle, can reduce Unmanned Vehicle System UVS development time, cost and risk. In addition, the Oracle solution provides further value to the developers of UVSs. As an integrated suite from a single vendor, it eliminates much of the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., COTS

White papers 2007-12-01

Like to fail? Write custom code.

Like to fail? Write custom code.Response biasYour conclusion doesn't follow from your data. The data could, for instance, be accounted for by the well-known fact that outsiders are given more respect than internal staff: purchased software, being sunk money, is much more likely to be treated as "good" with...

Tags: COTS

Discussion threads 2007-08-10

An Integrated COTS Solution for Enterprise Correspondence Management

Government agencies and departments are receiving increasingly large volumes of correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda, administrative forms, e-mail, phone messages, faxes and others. The correspondence may be from members of Congress, the White house, federal, state and local government agencies, private industry and the general public, as well...

Tags: COTS, AINS, Fax, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2007-06-01

Critical 'Human' Success Factors for Purchasing Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS)

One of the biggest challenges presented by a continually changing business environment is the need to update Information Systems IS to meet the changing needs of an organization. Information systems are key to an organization's success, and effectively managing the replacement process is vital to meeting business requirements. Typically, a...

Tags: Software, Information System, Selection, COTS, Saint Mary, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-10-01

Value-Based Processes for COTS-Based Applications

Economic imperatives are changing the nature of software development processes to reflect both the opportunities and challenges of using COTS products. Processes are increasingly moving away from the time-consuming composition of custom software from lines of code although these processes still apply for developing the COTS products themselves toward assessment,...

Tags: COTS, Processes

White papers 2005-07-01

Creating Security for E-Government Services

This white paper describes the authorities for Federal agency information security, including relevant laws, regulations, guidelines and directives. These include the requirement for agencies to use Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS security products whenever possible to achieve security of E-Gov information and systems. COTS products help agencies because they are easier to...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Agency, COTS, E-government, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing

White papers 2004-11-18

Embedded systems market to grow at 6.27% a year

VDC indicates that North American and European COTS (commercial, off the shelf) merchant board, system, OS and SW development tools shipments comprised over $2.3 billion in 2003, with a projected Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 6.27% over the period 2003-2008. Shipments of COTS merchant computer boards to these markets...

Tags: Shipments, COTS

Blog posts 2004-09-27

Additional Resources

Radeon HD 5970 - ATI's killer graphics card

You know what else is impressive?The foot long length of the thing.Alsothe noise level from the leaf-blower coolers to keep this thing from burning your house down.Seriously though, down for getting one, but not till a 3rd party gives us one with some custom cooling options. Although I guess they...

Tags: killer graphics card, Radeon HD 5970, Radeon HD, Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

BCube: A High Performance, Server-Centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers

This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the BCube architecture is its server-centric network structure, where servers with multiple network ports connect to multiple layers of COTS (commodity o-the-shelf) mini-switches. Servers act as not only end hosts,...

Tags: Data Center, Network, Network Architecture, High Performance Server, BCube, Data Centers, Networking, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-21

If you have a proprietary partner is it still open source?

Aren't Most Open Source Based Solutions HybridsDon't most application stacks custom or COTS that include open source components also include proprietary components? For example, every Vertica implementation is on an open source OS. I know there are many pure open source implementations, but I'd be curious to know if...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Communication Server 1000 6.0 Architecture and Upgrades Boot Camp

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this Boot Camp, you will get an introduction to the Communication Server CS 1000 Unified Communications Management and Common Services UCM CS architecture, its features, and performing upgrades. Through demonstrations, hands-on labs, and classroom discussions, you will learn about...

Tags: Software, Raleigh, Schaumburg, Washington, San Jose, Toronto, Chicago, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Management, Hardware

Training 2009-05-01

Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

Where Worlds Collide - and then there's SharepointThe Open Web and the Walled GardenNicely stated:Going forward Sharepoint is everywhere, and as future iterations of a cloud oriented Microsoft Office hook into the next iterations of Sharepoint, it seems likely an extensive new walled garden will emerge. How and if this...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Open web, open source, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

MySQL vs PostgresSQL

MySQL vs PostgresSQLStability vs. AbilityUnsurprisingly, my reaction to this post is to relate it back to what we were discussing about competition and the "evolution" of software in the previous Talkback.Murph, I think you're arguing at cross purposes here. Elsewhere you argue that competition is good because otherwise we'd all...

Tags: Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., MySQL, developer

Discussion threads 2009-03-17