VMware has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sunnyvale, Calif.-based software provider Virsto Software for an undisclosed amount and expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 2013. The acquisition is aimed at expanding VMware’s storage portfolio and its partnership with EMC Corp., which plans to license the Virsto technology, VMware said Monday. […] More

VMware has joined a non-profit institution that advocates for using open source software in government technology systems. The virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure provider, an EMC Corp. subsidiary, joins the Open Source Software Institute as a platinum member, the OSSI said. “VMware has a long history of support for open source software and collaborating with […] More

Lockheed Martin has been working closely with member companies of their Cybersecurity Alliance, Federal News Radio reported in an interview with Curt Aubley, vice president and chief technology officer for Lockheed. The alliance, led by Lockheed, was formed in 2009 as a way to develop and introduce new technology to combat electronic hacking attempts. The […] More

The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has deployed scale-out network-attached storage provided by EMC Corporation’s Isilon division. The storage will be used to power the institute’s big data-intensive workflows in various research areas, including biomedicine and geophysics. An Isilon statement says the institute will benefit from increased returns from information technology investment […] More

Capgemini and EMC Corporation have built a strategic alliance to identify and build multiple cloud-bases IT-as-a-Service offerings that will give customers the power to reduce costs and gain efficiency and business agility. According to Capgemini, the partnership with EMC will be a significant asset in expanding its cloud-based business service portfolio globally. Storage-as-a-Service will be […] More

A group led by salesforce.com and VCE are encouraging the Obama administration to adopt cloud computing. The group, made up of over 70 companies, recently sent a report to the Commerce Department and federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra saying the adopting cloud computing will drive job growth and secure U.S. technology leadership.  “Without question, […] More

According to its earnings call released yesterday, EMC Corporation spent $66 million in the second quarter to combat a cyber attack that compromised its RSA security division. The company used a significant portion of the money for transaction monitoring for the company’s corporate customers following the attack. EMC also offered replacements to any company that […] More

Large companies in France have taken steps to virtualize their IT environments because they believe cloud computing will help meet their business needs and increase agility in highly competitive markets, an IDC France survey says. The survey results were announced Thursday by VMware, Accenture and EMC Corporation. IDC“™s research explored companies of more than 2,000 […] More

Paul Battaglia is the vice president of sales for Public Sector Storage Solutions at Oracle. He has spent 20 years working in the federal government and global 2000 market space. His previous roles include serving as president and general manager of Inxight Federal Systems, which provides enterprise software solutions for information discovery and text analytics. […] More

One of the nation’s largest defense contractors, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) this weekend announced its information systems network had been struck by a “significant and tenacious attack,” something experts say is just the tip of the iceberg of security issues in the web domain affecting both government and industry. The Bethesda, Md.-headquartered firm said in […] More

Continued from Main Feature Lockheed Martin has created five reference architectures for security “” reusable architectures that give “best-of-breed“ approaches to build cybersecurity solutions. “We“™ve created a repository of artifacts, over 300 of them, that we share within the organization,“ says Lee Holcomb, director of the Center for Cyber Security Innovation at Lockheed Martin. “From […] More