Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. Other data center locations will […] More

IBM has opened four new cloud data centers in U.S. to address the demand for cloud infrastructure that can support access to services such as internet of things, blockchain, quantum computing and cognitive technology. The company said Wednesday it established two new facilities each in Dallas, Texas and Washington, D.C. as part of efforts to expand its global cloud footprint […] More

MarkLogic has tasked Vantage Data Centers to provide data center tools to support operations and potential company growth through a lease of data center capacity at Vantage’s campus in Santa Clara, California. “MarkLogic was looking for a scalable infrastructure solution to deliver massive, flexible capacity and the agility to support the rapid growth of its enterprise customer base,” Sureel Choksi, […] More

Level 3 Communications has achieved ISO 9001 certification for quality management at three of its data centers in Brazil. TUV Rheinland and the Argentine Accreditation Body performed the audits on the three facilities located in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Curitiba, including a review of their processes, operations and management systems, Level 3 said […] More

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

CenturyLink Technology Solutions, formerly known as Savvis, is working to expand its data center reach in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. with the help of IO. Under the partnership, CenturyLink Technology will use IO’s Intelligent Control technology platform to provide control, data collection and business intelligence services across data centers, CenturyLink Technology announced Wednesday. Users and […] More

Oracle’s government cloud offering has received authorization to host the Department of Defense’s secret classified workloads. With the Defense Information Systems Agency Impact Level 6 accreditation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now available to defense customers at all classification levels in support of their missions, the company said Monday.

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Carahsoft Technology will start distributing a Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System data quality product to the public sector. The company said Tuesday it will market Mathematica and NewWave’s Imersis offering through its reseller partners and the National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint contract.

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Iridium Communications has secured a five-year contract from L3Harris Technologies to deliver timing sync services to U.S. data centers, crucial for safeguarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s infrastructure. Under the contract, Iridium will supply its satellite time and location service to over 36 L3Harris-operated communications network backbone nodes and a similar number of FAA facilities.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Tom Watson, CEO of Serco Group‘s North American business arm, as a recipient of the 2024 Wash100 Award for his leadership in the delivery of professional, technology and management services to U.S. military service branches and federal civilian agencies. This is the first time that Watson was named among Executive Mosaic's annual list of Wash100 awardees.

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A partnership has been established to combine the cooling technology of Accelsius with the computing services of Equus Compute Solutions to meet the growing liquid cooling demand of data centers. Equus CEO Jay Lawrence said in a statement Wednesday, “By integrating Accelsius liquid cooling systems into our offerings, we are extending our high-performance server cooling solution to address the critical energy saving and performance expectations our customers demand.”

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed the game in the government contracting industry. Thanks to AI leaders, advancements such as automation, deep learning, natural language processing, and data-driven decision-making have given agencies a more human-like approach in their domains.    Who are the seasoned executives who have committed to transforming the AI field across public and […] More