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  • Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds

    Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

  • VMware's Bill Rowan: Defense Dept Embraces IT Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: Defense Dept Embraces IT Virtualization

    The U.S. Defense Department has been gradually switching from physical information systems to a software-based virtual infrastructure, VMware executive Bill Rowan writes in a Defense Systems opinion piece. Rowan, vice president of VMware’s DoD team, says the shift is driven by the current fiscal environment as well as federal data center consolidation and desktop virtualization initiatives. “Today, […] More

  • Patriot Technologies Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Technologies Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

    Patriot Technologies announced that it has linked up with the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program, a collaborative effort to deliver ideas for virtualization and transitioning to the cloud. “This membership means customers can take full advantage of a streamlined virtualization and cloud infrastructure experience,” said Sanjay Katyal, vice president of global alliances and OEMs for VMware. […] More

  • VMware Unveils Analytics System for Healthcare Industry; Drew Koerner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Unveils Analytics System for Healthcare Industry; Drew Koerner Comments

    VMware has introduced an analytics system for healthcare industry customers to gather and analyze electronic medical records data, InformationWeek reported Friday. Charles Babcock writes the Care Systems Analytics technology is built to work with the Epic electronic medical records system in exchanging patient data. The company adapted its vCenter Operations Manager to collect data from Epic […] More

  • Paul Sagan Joins VMware Board of Directors; Pat Gelsinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Sagan Joins VMware Board of Directors; Pat Gelsinger Comments

    Paul Sagan has been elected to the board of directors of VMware Inc., effective immediately, to fill the spot left by David Goulden. Sagan, a partner at General Catalyst Partners, also serves as a director at EMC Corp. and iRobot Corp., VMware announced. During his career, Sagan also served various positions at Akamai Technologies Inc., […] More

  • Guy Churchward: EMC Unveils Software-Based Storage Protection Suite for Data Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Guy Churchward: EMC Unveils Software-Based Storage Protection Suite for Data Centers

    EMC Corp. has released a new portfolio of data storage applications designed to help enterprises manage archiving, recovery and security functions. The Data Protection Suite is built to support physical, virtual and cloud computing systems and helps customers shift toward a software-defined storage model, EMC said Thursday. According to the company, the offerings work to […] More

  • CSC-VMware Team to Push Hybrid Cloud Brokering Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC-VMware Team to Push Hybrid Cloud Brokering Tool

    Computer Sciences Corp. and VMware will jointly offer customers a tool to migrate workloads between both companies’ respective cloud computing platforms and to conduct collaborative technical training for client-facing personnel. The companies said Thursday their hybrid cloud brokering product is intended to help users operate VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service in conjunction with CSC’s BizCloud and CloudCompute through CSC’s ServiceMesh Agility Platform. […] More

  • Business School Taps Cisco Server Setup for Data Processing Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Business School Taps Cisco Server Setup for Data Processing Center

    An international business school based in Madrid, Spain has chosen to deploy a unified server platform built Cisco in order to update the school’s data processing center. IE Business School purchased the Cisco Unified Computing System in order to have a centralized computing, network, storage and virtualization setup for the data processing center, Cisco announced […] More

  • Dell: Legacy System Modernization a Top Federal IT Priority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell: Legacy System Modernization a Top Federal IT Priority

    Modernizing legacy systems is one of the top priorities in federal information technology for addressing adaptability and efficiency, Ann Braley-Smith writes in a piece posted on Dell’s blog Monday. According to Braley-Smith, agencies stand to benefit from technology upgrades by converting information silos into open data and addressing redundancy issues. The report cited studies that support […] More

  • Peter Weber: Carpathia, VMware Team Aims for New Hybrid Federal Cloud to Fulfill FedRAMP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Weber: Carpathia, VMware Team Aims for New Hybrid Federal Cloud to Fulfill FedRAMP

    VMware and Carpathia will collaborate to provide federal agencies a hybrid cloud computing service as both companies seek to acquire an authority-to-operate provision under the governmentwide FedRAMP program. The VMware vCloud Government Service will be designed to run legacy and new applications in order to help agencies extend their data centers into a cloud computing environment that holds […] More

  • VMware Updates Hybrid Cloud Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Updates Hybrid Cloud Mgmt Tool

    VMware has updated its hybrid cloud management tool for cloud hosting service providers, Great Responder reported Saturday. Maria Dehn writes the new version of the vCloud Connector Tool is developed to various private and public cloud services on a single platform. The tool features interfaces for viewing workloads and creating workload catalogues with multiple cloud synchronization […] More

  • VMware to Offer Cloud Services on Google Computer; Sanjay Poonen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware to Offer Cloud Services on Google Computer; Sanjay Poonen Comments

    VMware will cloud-based desktop services on Google’s personal computer device in order to help customers update their mobile infrastructure. VMware’s desktop-as-a-service platform offering will be integrated into Google’s Chromebook devices for businesses to access Windows applications and data through the cloud, VMware said Wednesday. Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager of end-user computing at VMware, said […] More