Infrastructure Press Releases

Intelligent Decisions to Host Third Annual Military Appreciation Night at Verizon Center

Intelligent Decisions (ID), Inc., a premier global IT systems integrator, announced today that it will host Military Appreciation Night on Wednesday, April 18th, as the Wizards take on the Milwaukee Bucks at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. This is the third year in a row that ID has sponsored the event, which is designed to recognize the tremendous sacrifices that members of our armed forces, and their families, make on a daily basis. Tipoff for the game is at 7 p.m.

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idmilitaryappreciation.pdf		49 Kb

Zyrion Joins Hundreds of Organizations in World IPv6 Day Event

Zyrion Inc, a leading provider of Business Service Management (BSM) and Network Performance Monitoring solutions today joined hundreds of enterprises and service providers in a 24-hour, large-scale "test flight" of IPv6 technology - World IPv6 Day, an event organized by the Internet Society.

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zyrionipv6day.pdf		104 Kb

New Study Reveals National IT Security Challenges Mounting; Growing Sophistication of Cyber Attacks Pose Greatest Risk to U.S. Infrastructure

According to a new Clarus Research Group survey commissioned by Lumension, nearly three-quarters of federal IT decision-makers who work in national defense and security departments or agencies say the possibility is “high” for a cyber attack by a foreign nation in the next year. Additionally, a third of these respondents say they have already experienced such a cyber attack within the last year.

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newstudyrevealsnational.pdf		45 Kb

DataDirect Networks (DDN) Selected to Support NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer

DataDirect Networks (DDN™), world leader in massively scalable storage, today announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has selected the DDN SFA™12K™ storage array to build an unparalleled system delivering 100GB/s of storage performance for archiving data on the upcoming Blue Waters supercomputing system. With a sustained performance of over 1 Petaflop on a range of real-world science and engineering applications, this system is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

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ddnbluewaters.pdf		572 Kb

Cloud Computing Risks Worth Taking

Cloud Computing is being hailed as key to modernizing the federal government IT infrastructure and creating cost efficiencies desperately needed for sustainability. The May 11, 2009 White House 2010 budget request talks about the benefits of Cloud Computing and asks agencies to put together pilot programs focusing on topics such as Software-as-a Service (SaaS), telework and mobile devices.

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cloudcomputingrisksworthtaking.doc		137 Kb

FTC & Interior Discuss Using EA to Optimize Your Technical Infrastructure

The application of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to IT modernization efforts is one of most important yet often overlooked ways in which agencies can optimize their technical infrastructure. This application of EA helps agencies reduce costs and resources spent on their networks, servers and end user computing equipment as well as improving the delivery of related services such as help desks. Applying EA to technical infrastructure optimization, however, presents some distinctly different challenges than the typical vertical analysis of a mission area that need to be examined.

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ftcandinteriordiscussusingea.pdf		66 Kb