| General Atomics Wins US DoD Contract for Storage Lifecycle Management (SLM) |
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16:07 GMT, October 1, 2009 San Diego, CA | General Atomics’ Nirvana division has been awarded a multi-year, multi-site project by the High Performance Computing Modernization Program Office (HPCMPO) of the US Department of Defense (DoD). Valued at $22.5 million over ten years, the contract calls for implementation and operation of an SLM federation spanning six DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) throughout the United States. The federation will initially have 29 Petabytes (PB) of data under management including disaster recovery (DR). |
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Founded in 1955, General Atomics, with its affiliated companies (www.ga.com), is one of the world’s leading resources for high-technology systems from the nuclear fuel cycle to electromagnetic systems, remotely-operated surveillance aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electronic, wireless and laser technologies. General Atomics’ Nirvana division is located in San Diego, California, and provides advanced data solutions to government, research and industry customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, India and other countries around the world. www.ga.com/nirvana CSC is a global leader in technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business: Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, VA, CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 3, 2009. www.csc.com Sun Microsystems develops technologies that power the global marketplace. Sun Microsystems Federal brings these solutions to the U.S. Federal government, to establish Sun as the leading provider of mission-critical information solutions and the partner of choice for the U.S. Federal government. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com. Cipher Solutions offers a broad array of security services for Data Security, Storage and Backup Security, Key Management and PKI services, from IT security services for large financial institutions to strategy and designs of security technologies for large networking, storage and security vendors. www.ciphersolutions.com |
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Nirvana Jill White +1 (858) 455-2528 jill.white@ga.com General Atomics Doug Fouquet +1 (858) 455-2173 Fouquet@ga.com |
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