Cisco Systems Inc. has signed a deal with a Colorado Springs data center to secure the facility’s services intended to help customers address threats to equipment and sensitive information. Cisco has implemented its physical access manager to boost Data102’s physical security at its data center in Colorado Springs, Colo., Data102 said …

Dell has updated its desktop virtualization deployment software as the company intends to help customers implement information technology infrastructures based on Microsoft’s offerings. The updates aim to help organizations use existing Microsoft licensing agreements and deploy 1,040 virtual desktops, Dell said Friday. Dell’s new Desktop Virtualization Solution for Windows Server …

IBM has partnered with Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Co. to develop a mobile computing platform intended to help the telecommunication company grow and scale its information technology infrastructure. VMS is implementing a five-year information technology initiative that aims to help the company respond to customer needs while shoring up revenue …

Intel has sponsored a civic hacking event in 83 cities to help individuals address problems using data application. The event is intended to help the public collaborate with the government and private organizations to apply new applications into their data, Intel said Friday. Citizens have adopted digitization for several applications …

Dell Inc. has enhanced its software offerings designed to help enterprises migrate, manage and monitor Microsoft-based infrastructures. Updates from the company’s software division include those for the KACE K2000 Deployment Appliance, MessageStats Business Insights, Spotlight for SQL and Spotlight Project Lucy, Dell said Thursday. The upgrades are intended to enable Dell …

Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential $102 million contract to manage the information technology infrastructure of a California county seeking to centralize its IT systems. Orange County comprises 25 departments with respective divisions that manage more than three million residents, SAIC said Thursday. SAIC will upgrade applications that …

Siemens has signed an agreement with engineering firm Sinclair Knight Merz Pty. Ltd to provide conveyor systems for a project intending to help a mining conglomerate expand its iron port in the northwest region of Australia. U.K.-based mining and metals company Rio Tinto aims to increase its ore export volume …

Raytheon Co. and the U.S. Navy have upgraded and tested a missile designed to defend against hostile cruise missiles, airborne threats and surface objects. Four Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 missiles destroyed two targets during developmental tests from the Navy’s Self-Defense Test Ship, Raytheon said Thursday. Raytheon installed dual-mode, passive radio …

Northrop Grumman and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center have renewed their Space Act Agreement to continue joint earth science missions and flight tests with the company’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Both organizations will continue to jointly use and fund the Global Hawks until April 30, 2018 to monitor hurricanes, study …

Cisco has agreed to buy enterprise information technology energy management firm JouleX for $107 million in cash and share retention incentives as Cisco aims to grow its energy management offerings for integrated networks. The deal is expected to close in fiscal year 2013’s fourth quarter and JouleX’s employees will move to …

CA Technologies Inc. has launched new capabilities to manage infrastructures for Citrix Systems Inc.’s XenDesktop 7, intended to help businesses and managed service providers boost productivity. The two companies began developing CA infrastructure management 2.2 in October 2012 to enable their joint clients to view and monitor performance, tasks, events, …

Cisco Systems Inc. and the University of British Columbia are partnering to develop and commercialize new capabilities intended to lower the energy consumption of campus buildings. Serving as a Living Lab Initiative, UBC will work with Cisco to integrate environmental controls, security, lighting, energy, video, fire and safety across UBC’s …

Deloitte Australia has partnered with Kaggle Inc. to combine data organizations in an effort to help customers gain business insights from data analytics, according to an IT Wire article. Peter Dinham writes Deloitte and Kaggle will merge their respective 6,000 analytics personnel and 100,000 data scientists in Kaggle’s first global partnership. Anthony …

Raytheon has won a contract with the Dutch air force to update its surveillance systems, aiming to help air controllers differentiate between real targets and false objects. The company will implement the WiMax interference filtering system with hardware and software adjustments to upgrade four airport surveillance radar sites over the …

A Boeing communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force launched into space Friday and transmitted its first on-orbit signals to controllers in Australia within the first hour of liftoff. The fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite is intended to help the Air Force link troops to secure communications worldwide, Boeing said …