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  • The Open Group's O-TTPS Gets ISO/IEC Int'l Standard Status; Andras Szakal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Open Group’s O-TTPS Gets ISO/IEC Int’l Standard Status; Andras Szakal Comments

    The Open Group‘s Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard has received approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the security and integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communications technology products and supply chains. The consortium said Tuesday the new ISO/IEC 20243:2015 standard works to help COTS ICT providers prevent the introduction of tampered or counterfeit product components at any stage […] More

  • IBM, French Agency Partner for Exascale Computing Project; Michel Teyssedre Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, French Agency Partner for Exascale Computing Project; Michel Teyssedre Comments

    IBM and French high performance computing agency GENCI have partnered to develop a new exascale computing system. The team will prepare scientific applications for systems designed to perform more than 100 petaflops of calculation under the 18-month collaboration, IBM said Friday. “We fully expect our collaborative efforts will produce innovations capable of moving the supercomputing […] More

  • Big Market Research: BYOD, Cyber Attacks to Boost Global Market for Managed Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Big Market Research: BYOD, Cyber Attacks to Boost Global Market for Managed Security Services

    A Big Market Research study predicts the global market for managed security services to record a compound annual growth rate of 15.8 percent from 2014 through 2020. The research firm said Wednesday an increase in adoption of bring-your-own-device policies at workplaces and rising incidents of data breaches and cyber attacks are among the factors that will drive the […] More

  • IBM Integrates Blue Box Cloud into Global Data Centers; Jesse Proudman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Integrates Blue Box Cloud into Global Data Centers; Jesse Proudman Comments

    IBM has consolidated the Blue Box private cloud-as-a-service into its global data center infrastructure that runs SoftLayer. The OpenStack-powered Blue Box Cloud, recently acquired by IBM, has been added to the OpenStack portfolio to help customers operate public cloud, IBM said Wednesday. “Today, we’ve taken a big step toward our goal of delivering private clouds to customers […] More

  • IBM Adds Cloud Backup to Storage Software Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Adds Cloud Backup to Storage Software Offerings

    IBM has moved to expand its storage software offerings through the addition of new cloud backup features to the company’s portfolio. Customers will work to back up data to on-premises storage or the cloud with the new features for the IBM Spectrum Protect software, IBM said Wednesday. IBM will release the Spectrum Protect as a VersaStack service […] More

  • Scott Frohman Joins SAS as Federal Sales Director; Karen Terrell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Frohman Joins SAS as Federal Sales Director; Karen Terrell Comments

    Scott Frohman, formerly enterprise federal sales manager of defense and intelligence at Google, has joined SAS as director of federal sales. He will manage a sales team that promotes company-built business intelligence, analytics and data management platforms in the federal civilian, defense and intelligence markets, SAS said Monday. “Scott will lead the charge to bring […] More

  • Chris Wilkinson Joins Infoblox as Federal Account Executive - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Wilkinson Joins Infoblox as Federal Account Executive

    Chris Wilkinson, formerly the account executive of intelligence community for Microsoft, has joined Infoblox as federal account executive. Wilkinson takes responsibility of Infoblox’s initiatives to create new business opportunities and forge partnerships with the company’s customers in IC. He most recently oversaw Microsoft’s sales to IC agencies and handled the sales of Microsoft services portfolio. Wilkinson previously held […] More

  • Executive Profile: Ron Foudray, Information Systems Business Development VP at Northrop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Ron Foudray, Information Systems Business Development VP at Northrop

    Ron Foudray serves as vice president of business development for Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector. He oversees strategic partnerships, business capture and customer engagement operations for the sector. Prior to this role, Foudray served as VP of business development at Northrop’s cyber solutions and defense systems divisions. He has more than three decades of design, development and integration experience […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: UCaaS Market to Hit $25B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: UCaaS Market to Hit $25B by 2020

    A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the market for unified-communications-as-a-service will grow at a 10.5-percent compound annual growth rate to reach a market value of $24.88 billion in 2020. The company said Monday the market is currently worth $15.12 billion, driven by the increasing use of communications solutions that integrate desktop, video, voice and messaging applications. According […] More

  • IBM's David Turek: Supercomputer Development Requires Data Processing Function Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s David Turek: Supercomputer Development Requires Data Processing Function Upgrades

    IBM uses a data-centric computing architecture to help the U.S. Energy Department build high-performance supercomputers under a $325 million contract between the company and the agency, InformationWeek reported Aug. 7. David Turek, vice president of technical computing at IBM, told the publication in an interview that high-performance computing capacity is measured through exascale nodes and […] More

  • Anne Altman: FedRAMP Board Certifies IBM Mobile Device Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Altman: FedRAMP Board Certifies IBM Mobile Device Mgmt Platform

    IBM has been authorized to offer government agencies a cloud-based mobile device management platform through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. This is the first instance of an enterprise mobility management offering to receive a provisional authority-to-operate designation from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, the company said Wednesday. IBM’s MaaS360 enterprise mobility system will be available for […] More

  • Executive Profile: Herb VanHook, VP & Deputy CTO at BMC Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Herb VanHook, VP & Deputy CTO at BMC Software

    Herb VanHook serves as a vice president and deputy chief technology officer at BMC Software, where he also provides strategic and portfolio support to the automation and cloud business unit. He specializes in digital transformation strategies, business planning and corporate development and has 30 years of experience in the information technology sector. Before joining BMC in […] More