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Red Hat Government News is a monthly newsletter designed to provide government agencies worldwide with the latest information on training, offers, events, and news articles.
As spring nears its end and summer is quickly approaching, Red Hat has an exciting new lineup of programs and events. We are thrilled, in particular, to highlight the Government Breakfast at the 2008 Summit, which will feature our president and CEO Jim Whitehurst.
Join us as he addresses the government market and discusses successes, challenges, and best practices from agencies utilizing open source systems and middleware applications. Also, network with other government sectors and employees, and discover their experiences and needs while enjoying a complimentary breakfast. See below for details, or register here.
And, don't forget to check out our other upcoming events in our event calendar. We look forward to seeing you at the breakfast!
Respectfully,
Paul Smith, VP of Government Sales Operations
This year's Summit is about you: Our customers. Our community. Our partners. In each track, you'll hear stories from other Red Hat customers about how they use today's technology, and information from Red Hat about what we're working to give you in the future.
Tracks this year include:
Red Hat Summit Details:
Click here for more information.
Government Breakfast Details:
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and atsec information security today announced that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, v4.3 is currently 'In Evaluation' for Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+ (augmented for flaw remediation).
Common Criteria is an internationally approved set of security standards used by governments and businesses worldwide. It is designed to bolster end-user confidence by providing clear and reliable assurance that a technology's integrity and security architecture have been thoroughly tested and validated by an accredited, third-party source against the Common Criteria Standard for Information Technology Security Evaluation (ISO/IEC 15408).
Recognized and adopted by 22 countries, Common Criteria certification allows security-conscious organizations such as the U.S. government to purchase IT products with the confidence that they are in compliance with widely accepted security standards. In addition to its significance in government, Common Criteria is gaining momentum in financial services, healthcare and other industries that benefit from the security assurance certification affords.
The 4th Annual Government Health IT Conference brings together 500+ thought leaders and policy-makers to discuss the integration of government programs, technology, and healthcare issues to improve the way future healthcare is managed and delivered. This conference program addresses health-related technologies, strategies, and policies, and how government organizations manage and influence the outcomes of national, regional, and local healthcare programs.
You'll come away with ready-to-use knowledge on health-related technologies, strategies, and business and finance issues shaping Government Health IT.
Click here for more information.
Casey Coleman, the chief information officer of the General Services Administration, spoke at a Federal Open Source Alliance Web seminar held earlier today.
Coleman noted that the GSA does indeed use a wide variety of open source programs. The agency started using open source for information systems, though is increasingly using the software for transactional mission-critical systems. For instance, the agency is using the JBoss application server for many of its acquisitions systems, and Linux for its data centers.
(In addition to those workhorses, Coleman also mentioned that GSA is using a number of other programs, some of which surprised us: Bugzilla, for bug tracking, JUnit testing software, the JMeter Apache performance monitoring tool, and Eclipse, which can be used for application development and as a run-time engine.)
Tired of the status quo in middleware? Facing project backlogs? Trying to do more, with already-constrained resources and budget?
With IT project backlogs growing and an increased demand for modular, integrated, rich end-user experiences, the use of open source software provides a more efficient and economical way to solve these infrastructure software challenges.
Join us and hear from Rob Cardwell, Vice President of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat how government agencies can accelerate SOA and application deployment in a simple, open and affordable way with JBoss Enterprise Middleware. It's a complete portfolio of mission-critical open source middleware including an ESB-based SOA platform, portal platform and data services platform that enables you to confidently develop, integrate, deploy and manage mission critical Web 2.0 applications, enterprise data, and SOA services.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Time: 2:00pm EST
Click here to register for this webinar and learn more information.
Today we released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base.
Of course, we don't normally make a big deal about the release of a minor version, but for this update we've decided to go wild and issue a pair of blogs. In this one we will talk about the new features and capabilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. In the other we will highlight something that we are proud of and applies to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, our software maintenance and lifecycle policies.
Enterprise Linux 5.2 Highlights
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 enhancements we are releasing are primarily focused in six areas:
June 3, 2008: AeA Technology CIO Dinner Grand Hyatt - Washington DC
June 12-13, 2008: 4th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition - Washington DC
June 16-17, 2008: Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit - Harrisburg, PA
June 17-19, 2008: Joint Warfighting Conference 2008 - Virginia Beach, VA
June 17-20, 2008: Red Hat Summit 2008 - Boston, MA
Be sure to check out Red Hat's government event calandar for more information regarding these events and many others.
