McAfee has selected six new partners for its Security Innovation Alliance, which works to help enterprises address risks to their organizations. Allgress, Co3 Systems, Cyvera, Fasoo, Fixmo and NetFox Online have joined the SIA to help the program deliver integrated services to customers, McAfee said Wednesday. “Today’s threat vectors are …

Hewlett-Packard has launched a new set of big data services intended to help customers operate and maintain their information technology infrastructures, the Times of India reported Tuesday. HP aims to help organizations manage information technology infrastructures and meet industry and regulatory requirements with the new services, the report said. Biswanath …

A Juniper Networks study has found that cyber attackers have escalated their malware strategies over a one-year period to exploit mobile devices for profit. Juniper’s third annual Mobile Threats Report revealed that malicious mobile applications have grown by 614 percent to 276,259 apps from March 2012 through March 2013, Juniper said …

A Raytheon subsidiary has won the American Hospital Association’s endorsement for its simulation-based training product. Raytheon Professional Services LLC and Medical Simulation Corp. jointly developed the product to help design and implement online, simulation and instructor-led training programs, Raytheon said Thursday. AHA Solutions Inc., an association subsidiary, awarded the endorsement …

Teradata and Informatica Corp. have partnered to unify their big data analytics architectures in an effort to help organizations to integrate processes in a single data platform. The integration works to help customers use a no-code development platform for integrating data into Hadoop and Informatica’s Virtual Data Machine to develop graphical …

A global study by Thales has shown enterprises moving their sensitive information to cloud environments have increased amid data security concerns. Thales commissioned Ponemon Institute to analyze the views and attitudes of 4,000 organizations in seven countries for the Encryption in the Cloud survey, Thales said Tuesday. Ponemon spoke to enterprises in …

Avaya has unveiled new consulting services intended to help enterprises address the impact of cloud, Session Initiation Protocol technologies, security and automation on their communication infrastructures. Avaya built the Cloud Transformation Services for organizations to develop strategic plans, and the Continuous Performance Services for businesses to maintain their collaboration system …

Salesforce.com and Oracle have formed a partnership to combine their applications, platforms and infrastructures in an effort to help customers implement cloud-based services. Oracle will also power Salesforce’s applications and platform while the latter will use Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial cloud applications, Oracle said Tuesday. Salesforce will integrate Linux …

Unisys Corp. has introduced new software solutions that will enable communications service providers to deliver mobile offerings intended to fulfill customer preferences. The company developed the Unisys Application Services Broker and Digital Dialog Manager with value-added services to help CSPs deploy mobile solutions to subscribers through short message service, social media, …

Oracle has partnered with Microsoft for an undisclosed value to help customers run software on Windows platforms, aiming to extend cloud computing services for clients. The partnership intends to help Oracle customers deploy Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server in Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure with support …

Xerox Corp. has launched the BenefitWallet online portal designed to provide employers and health insurance providers with a single platform for managing multiple health accounts. BenefitWallet works with current benefit management applications to enable health plans to provide benefits, including savings accounts, reimbursements, spending accounts and wellness incentives, Xerox said …

DataDirect Networks has signed a deal to provide Texas Advanced Computing Center at Austin’s University of Texas with a storage system for computing and visualization systems intended to fulfill future research requirements. TACC selected DDN’s SFA12K and SFA7700 platforms and EXAScaler parallel file storage system to connect its resources as …

ITT Exelis has developed the SideHat and Soldier Radio-Rifleman radio system designed to support the U.S. Army’s tactical communications network. Exelis built the SideHat radio to attach and provide second channel to the single channel ground and airborne radio systems vehicular radios and receive the Army’s standard soldier radio waveform, …

Microsoft Corp. has qualified for a $20 million tax break from the Iowa Economic Development Authority Board for its planned $700 million data center in West Des Moines, the Des Moines Register reported Friday. Donnelle Eller writes the Project Mountain program will extend Microsoft’s data center investment to almost $1 …

Microsoft’s cloud platforms for life sciences organizations have achieved the qualifications set by the Food and Drug Administration to help customers validate Microsoft’s offerings. Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365 passed the third-party system documentation review against GxP requirements for production and testing practices, Microsoft said Monday. Quality management services provider …