FireEye has selected Carahsoft as distributor of the year for the USPS and Americas category as part of the former’s 2018 global partner awards.

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The University of Wisconsin has selected ViON to help the UW system’s chief information officers implement storage and back-up platforms to support their information technology projects. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company’s switches, tapes and tape libraries to UW’s 26 campuses worldwide along with storage systems from Oracle, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Tom Frana, CEO and […] More

A new report from Australia’s national audit office says IBM received the highest number of information technology contracts from the Australian government during the 2012 to 2013 through 2016 to 2017 period, ZDNet reported Thursday. Australia spent $27 billion on IT contracts over the five-year period, including $1.8 billion for 692 government contracts that went to IBM, […] More

Rivada Networks plans to work with states and territories that want to opt out of the First Responder Network Authority’s wireless public safety broadband network. Herndon, Virginia-based Rivada said Friday it has begun to work with New Hampshire on a potential alternative broadband network strategy in case the state decides to develop a public safety network separate […] More

MEF has announced finalists for the company’s 2016 Excellence Awards that recognizes service, application, technology and professional excellence in the global Third Network community. The company said Thursday it will present the awards in November at the MEF Excellence Awards Dinner as part of the MEF16 global networking conference. Global and regional senior analysts from ATLANTIC-ACM, Current Analysis, Frost […] More

A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, predicts the global private and public cloud market in financial services industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The 107-page market research report incorporates analysis and inputs from industry professionals and covers the market landscape and its growth forecast over the next […] More

Dell‘s Australia-based business unit has received a two-year, $56.9 million contract from that country’s defense department to deliver than 100,000 desktops across the military as part of a large-scale computer supply project, CRN reported Tuesday. Steven Kiernan writes the desktop units will run both Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems to support the project that aims […] More

Rivada Networks has formed a consortium of technology firms to pursue a contract to build a 4G LTE broadband wireless network for public safety organizations in the U.S. The Rivada Mercury team includes Harris Corp., Intel‘s security business, Ericsson, Nokia,  Fujitsu Network Communications and Black & Veatch and aims to offer a national emergency services network in the 700 megahertz spectrum, Rivada Networks […] More

A Research and Markets report predicts that the market for cloud storage products will reach a value of $65.41 billion in 2020 from $18.87 billion in 2015, at a compound annual growth rate of 28.22 percent. The company said Sept. 3 the growing adoption of cloud storage gateways and demand for big data storage will drive market growth […] More

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and the New Jersey State Police used the JerseyNet communications system made by Oceus Networks to manage the visit of Pope Francis to the U.S. Oceus said Tuesday the agencies utilized JerseyNet to support mobile communications and the live stream of security video during the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. “[JerseyNet] connected multiple agencies in Band […] More

A new ABI Research report has projected the biometric security and surveillance industry to reach $26.8 billion in revenues by 2020. The report notes that biometric technologies have begun to attract consumer and banking markets in addition to strong market adoption in law enforcement and government applications, ABI Research said Thursday. ABI Research also reports […] More

A new TechNavio report predicts the global mobile biometrics market to grow at 128.4 percent year over year from 2014 through 2019 as the study notes a rise in integration of biometrics in two-factor authentication devices. TechNavio expects an increase in identity and data theft cases to propel market growth during the forecast period while […] More