Meg Whitman, CEO and president of Hewlett Packard, highlighted the company’s vision for cloud computing and big data management in a keynote speech at the HP Discover event in Barcelona, Silicon Angle reported Tuesday. Alina Popescu writes Whitman told the forum audience that HP builds technologies that aim to help organizations manage cloud servers and […] More

VMware and network security provider Fortinet have demonstrated a security policy proof of concept for protecting traffic flow across virtual networks at the hypervisor level. That concept works to display traffic traversing a VMware virtual environment that focuses on communications security implementation across physical and logical workloads, Fortinet said Thursday. Milin Desai, director of product […] More

Toshiba Corp. has introduced a virtual desktop service with virtualization technologies from Citrix and VMware intended to help information technology customers manage infrastructures, Web Host Industry Review reported Monday. Nicole Henderson writes the Toshiba VDS builds on the company“™s management software and storage technology and consolidates Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View technologies. Scott Sims, […] More

A Hewlett-Packard business division will continue to serve as fiscal agent for the Medicaid program of Rhode Island for another five years under a new $89.9 million contract from the state“™s Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The project, which has three 12-month options excluded from the transaction cost, aims to cost-effectively improve operations of […] More

As covered on our sister site GovCon Wire, 17 government contractors recently won the ability to compete for orders for cybersecurity products and services with the Department of Homeland Security under contract potentially worth up to $6 billion. The contract supports the department’s Continuous Monitoring and Diagnostics program and supports “continuous-monitoring-as-a-service,” a cloud computing-based method […] More

Partnerships between government contracting companies have become a widespread method of attracting government contracts as opportunities have begun to dwindle. Larger company’s present their very best partners with “Partner of the Year” awards in order to recognize their important contribution to the completion of work. GovCon Executive covers these awards because they illustrate not only […] More

IBM will provide computing products to energy and environment engineering firm Thermax Ltd, aiming to help Thermax centralize its services and assess new offerings in cloud computing environment.. Thermax picked IBM“™s SmartCloud and PureSystems to upgrade its information technology infrastructure, IBM said Thursday. IBM implemented its SmartCloud technology on the PureSystems and Citrix XenApp server […] More

Power management software provider Eaton Corp. has joined NetApp‘s alliance partner program that gives application and infrastructure providers access to NetApp offerings and services. Eaton has also released an updated version of its Intelligent Power Manager software intended to help users monitor NetApp storage platforms and protect their data in the event of a power […] More

Several technology companies have joined forces to share research and development costs and technology for an initiative aimed at growing software-defined networking in the corporate market. Vendors will contribute code aimed at helping their products work together, but also be allowed to customize their products to differentiate themselves from competitors, Reuters reported Monday. Reuters reports […] More

HP Enterprise Services has unveiled a cloud-based offering to provide users with secure mobile access to enterprise applications and data. The HP enterprise cloud services ““ mobility deploys tools and services that are meant to help secure access to and sharing of applications and file storage across multiple mobile devices such as tablet computers and […] More

World Wide Technology and Embrane are partnering to deploy software-defined network offerings to enterprise data centers. WWT has started exhibiting Embrane“™s SDN solutions at its executive briefing center in St. Louis for enterprises that build public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures, WWT said Tuesday. Embrane deploys its firewalls and load balancers in less than 90 […] More

Dell is providing a mobile computing system to a healthcare provider for viewing patient information such as electronic medical records, the company said Thursday. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, which handles patients in 16 Florida and Georgia counties, used the system for a year-long pilot in its 55-physician family medicine residency program, where it stored information in […] More