Pivot3 has launched the first hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform to be certified with BVMS,  the video management system from Bosch, Pivot3 reported on Tuesday. With the certification, Pivot3 will provide organizations with additional improvements in economics, simplicity and agility in their physical security environments. 

"Both Pivot3 and Bosch have a strong presence and focus in the federal community including having federal system integrators in common who design, propose, deploy and support solutions based on BVMS running on Pivot3," said Mike Koponen, senior director business development, Pivot3.

The company’s HCI surveillance solution is the industry's only hyperconverged infrastructure designed specifically for the unique demands of video workloads and complements the embedded resilience, scalability and reduced total cost of ownership benefits BVMS delivers.

Pivot3's hyperconverged infrastructure will unify storage, compute and virtualization resources into a highly resilient, easy-to-deploy and scale solution that will reduce cost, complexity and organizational risk. 

The company is purpose-built for mission-critical video surveillance and security operations with the ability to consolidate video management, video storage, video analytics, access control and other security workloads onto a common infrastructure. 

Pivot3's infrastructure has also integrated intelligent automation to deliver proactive system health, configuration optimization and automatic information sharing with Pivot3's Support Cloud to ensure systems are running at peak performance and availability.

"We are pleased to partner with the Bosch team on this validation; this certification validates the use of Pivot3 HCI with BVMS for customers wishing to deploy our intelligent solutions together," Koponen concluded.

About Pivot3

Pivot3 is the leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged infrastructure solutions for video surveillance, video analytics, VDI, and mixed workloads. Pivot3's solutions provide security, resilience, and management simplicity at scale for customers' mission-critical environments. 

With thousands of customers in 64 countries, and deployments in education, hospitality, transportation, government, defense, healthcare, gaming, financial services, and retail, Pivot3 allows IT to manage complexity at scale through intelligence and automation.

The CIA has declassified documents about a reconnaissance drone project in the 1960s, Inceptive Mind reported Monday.

The Aquiline project sought to develop reconnaissance drones based on birds’ flight characteristics. The drone has a wingspan of 10 feet for use in carrying infrared cameras, radio equipment, radar and other payloads.

The agency envisioned Aquiline as a long-range vehicle that could navigate stealthily into denied locations to gather technical intelligence and support other agency missions, according to the CIA’s news release.

The project did not advance to the operational phase, but the agency said the concept for Aquiline “proved invaluable as a forerunner” to multicapability unmanned aerial vehicles in use today.

The National Science Foundation supported the establishment of three institutes that aim to bolster research and development in quantum information science, Fedscoop reported Friday.

Denise Caldwell, NSF's division director for physics, told reporters that the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes would address the need for a network that reliably facilitates communication between quantum computers.

NSF invested $75 million in the university-led institutes, established in July, that will tackle challenges in the areas of high-fidelity networks and quantum sensing. The institutes will also work to help the government build a quantum technology workforce.

NASA has completed the first four green run tests of its Space Launch System rocket's core stage in preparation for four more tests in the series. The effort's assigned team ran the fourth test with gaseous nitrogen and helium as a more efficient alternative to the liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellants intended for the conclusive hot-fire test, the space agency said Saturday.

Checks for leaks and functional issues across engines and propulsion systems took place over a three-week period. The test built on three previous ones that tackled the SLS core stage's computers, navigation systems, avionics and fail-safe systems.

The upcoming fifth test will evaluate the performance of the stage's thrust vector control system that steers the RS-25 engines via actuators. The sixth and seventh tests will rehearse the launch countdown timeline and propellant use.

The eighth, final test will subject the core stage to a fire test with the rocket's four RS-25 engines. NASA will move the core stage to Kennedy Space Center after the eighth test's completion and succeeding preparations.

SLS will carry the Orion spacecraft in support of Artemis, an effort to revive manned space exploration. The manned Artemis mission to the moon is scheduled for 2024.