Deploy warfighter applications faster with open source Platform-as-a-Service

David Egts (Red Hat)

Up-and-coming Web startups are leapfrogging each other to market using Internet-hosted Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies. PaaS allows these startups to innovate rapidly by focusing more time on their mission and less time managing hardware and software. Can the warfighter benefit from PaaS t... [read more]

Secure virtualization for tactical environments

David Egts (Red Hat)

Virtualization bestows significant benefits on the warfighter, including consolidation, uniformity, live migration, and performance, but only if that sensitive tactical data can rely on secure hypervisors.

Protecting your Linux server from root password-guessing attacks

Don R. Crawley (Soundtraining.net)

Protecting the Linux server from security breaches is an ever-increasing issue, and an examination of using cryptographic keys for the SSH root login provides insight on the issue.

Data acquisition embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet

Justin Vandenbroucke (University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics)

Embedded technologies help researchers control, monitor, and acquire data from systems located at an almost completely inaccessible site where winter temperatures sometimes reach -80 °C.

Overcoming the challenges of embedded Linux product development

Maciej Halasz (Timesys )

Expert Linux support and tools can help reduce development time, risk, and cost.

Smart displays meet military vetronics demands for reduced SWaP and better security

John McHale (Editorial Director)

A supplemental snapshot to "Lowering cost per mile in military vehicles drives vetronics designs," in which Editorial Director John McHale takes an introspective look into the smart displays being mounted in military vehicles.

Java simplifies system management of PICMG hardware

Hank Bruning (JBlade)

Manipulating the IPMI infrastructure found in PICMG hardware with Java software frees system integrators and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to develop software without being limited to single-vendor hardware solutions.

Embedded Linux on PC/104

Eric Finster (Micro/sys. Inc.)

This article looks at the Linux beast from a definitely "PC/104 angle". It will ask, then answer, a number of critical questions related to application, development environment, tool chain, drivers, and applications.

Linux PC sends electric usage data over TCP/IP, saving $9,000/month line charges

Frank Pellitta (Arcom Control Systems)

This article describes a real world embedded Linux application, why developers chose embedded Linux, and presents feedback on the success or failure of the choice to use embedded Linux.

High-Availability Linux

Larry Cruz (Motorola Computer Group)

While CompactPCI provides the fundamental bus architecture for embedded systems platforms for the telecommunications industry, additional hardware and software is required to provide a system that is “highly available” and worthy of being deployed in critical telecommunication infrastructure applica... [read more]