MarkLogic recently held its annual Government Summit, included more than 350 government and industry decision maker attendees who explored big data solutions. Amidst panels and discussions was the official launch of the MarkLogic Public Sector Twitter handle, @MarkLogicPubSec and the MarkLogic Public Sector Facebook page. “This year’s MarkLogic Government Summit …

VCE Chairman Michael Capellas recently spoke at CA World 2011 in Las Vegas on the latest technology trends that are transforming data centers and enabling greater business agility. His keynote session featured CA Technologies CEO Bill McCracken, former first Federal CIO and current Harvard fellow Vivek Kundra, and former Facebook marketing director and …

Symantec has identified instant messaging as a significant risk for organizations, as a way in which malware can make its way into the workplace. In order to scan messages and attachments for malware, malicious URLs and other attacks, Syamtec has designed an IM specific solution, Symantec Instant Messaging Security. cloud with support for Microsoft …

NASA led the way in joining Google Plus, and now more federal agencies are quickly following. The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, among other agencies, have now joined Google’s social network, according to a report from Information Week. Originally only made available to …

IBM and Italian firm Eurotech announced they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices. The technology will be made available to the open source community of the Eclipse Foundation, founded by IBM in 2001. The contributed Message Queuing Telemetry Transport …

Accenture is planning to add 200 workers to its Minneapolis office, according to a report in the Minneapolis and St. Paul Business Journal, making its operations there one of its fastest growing in North America. Jim Hammerand writes that David Wilson, the company’s managing partner for the office, quoted the …

Red Hat has joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook established project that aims to construct efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest cost. As part of the project, Red Hat and Open Computer Project members will collaborate to develop technologies, design and develop next-generation datacenters.  Red Hat has played a role in …

RightNow is putting its full-featured service into mobile applications through RightNow CX for mobile apps. The app allows consumers full access to RightNow’s customer experience suite.   “To help brands stay ahead of the rapidly evolving consumer, we provide accelerators — comprehensive toolkits that focus on specific consumer interactions, like mobile — that leverage …

The U.S. Army BOSS-U program has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to further develop and supply the IntegenX RapidHIT 200 human DNA identification system. The system automates and accelerates the process of producing standardized DNA profiles from cheek swabs, human tissue samples, and other objects with low copy numbers of DNA. …

Industry and government leaders will lead the official launch of National Cyber Security Awareness Month today through a Facebook Live stream viewing and audioconference between Lockheed Martin’s Global Vision Center and Ypsilanti, Mich. “Lockheed Martin believes that raising cyber security awareness is a team sport. With cyber security at the core of everything …

Symantec‘s September 2011 intelligence report found that in the U.S., the public sector remained the most targeted by phishing activity with one in every 125.8 e-mails comprising a phishing attack. The report also found that the public’s sector spam level was 74.5 percent, greater than all but the education sector, 77.2 …

Salesforce.com announced that chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will kick off Cloudforce 2011 London to be held Sept. 14 -15. Benioff will be joined onstage by Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, and Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry. With a record 5,000 registered to attend and more than 50 lead cloud computing companies in …

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned the security community about potential attacks from Anonymous over the next few months demonstrating that the DHS is taking non-professional cyberattackers more seriously. The recent bulletin from the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center warned financial services companies to look out for Anonymous attackers …

The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a public process establishing a “trade regulation” for web-based services to regulate Google, Facebook and Twitter. The FTC would clearly define acts or practices which they consider unacceptable under the proposed regulation. Currently, the FTC has legal …

Chuck Ganapathi,  former salesforce.com executive, has been announced as the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Accel Partners, a venture capital and growth equity firm. Ganapathi will evaluate and incubate new business opportunities created by the confluence of social and mobile technologies in the enterprise, capitalizing on Accel Partners’ involvement with social media. …