Capgemini and EMC‘s Pivotal subsidiary have partnered to deliver an information management platform for organizations to analyze big data from a variety of sources. Their Business Data Lake framework seeks to combine Capgemini’s big data and analytics expertise and Pivotal’s enterprise-class technologies, Capgemini said Wednesday. “This new offer represents our …

General Electric will partner with AT&T, Cisco and Intel in order to expand its “industrial internet” meant to aid customers in analyzing big data, according to a Reuters report. Sruthi Ramakrishnan writes that Bill Ruh, GE Software’s Corporate Officer, said GE designed its internet offering to help users track, monitor and operate GE’s …

Savvis, has joined the advisory board of a project led by data infrastructure software provider Pivotal that works to provide an open platform-as-a-service offering to the cloud community. The Century Link subsidiary also signed a community contributor license agreement with Cloud Foundry to help developers and other organizations make cloud-based applications, Pivotal announced …

Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, recently spoke with Executive Mosaic about the effects of sequestration on different agencies and programs in the U.S. federal government ahead of the Potomac Officers Club’s Post-Sequestration Summit Tuesday May 14. In this piece, McAleese offers his perspective on the F-35 program’s …

Pivotal, a data analytics startup spun out of EMC and VMware, has received a $105 million investment from General Electric, according to a CRN article. Steven Burke writes that Pivotal’s investment represents a 10 percent stake and puts the company’s value at more than $1 billion. The company has 1,400 employees and combines both big data and …

Paul Maritz has been appointed as chief executive of Pivotal, a spinoff business that combines cloud computing platforms and big data analytics offerings from EMC and VMware. EMC and VMware expect the new entity to compete in the cloud service market, InfoWorld reported Monday. Maritz said in a letter to …

Mitre Corp. has won an award from Computerworld for its role in developing a computational model aimed at helping the Department of Veterans Affairs address homelessness among veterans. The nonprofit organization, which runs federally-funded research and development centers, was among 29 organizations recognized with the Laureate distinction for 2013, Mitre …

EMC and VMware plan to create a big data analytics company they hope will generate $1 billion in revenue within five years, Information Week reports. Charles Babcock writes the companies will spin off Pivotal Inc. Monday to establish a data analytics platform aimed at integrating big data in a multi-petabyte, …

EMC and its majority-owned subsidiary VMware confirmed plans to combine their cloud application and big data offerings into a single “virtual organization” to be called “the Pivotal Initiative,” according to a Forbes article. The companies said a specific operating structure will be determined for the new organization and that the combination will occur in Q2, 2013. …

James (Jim) Kelly is a vice president and general manager for Defense Intelligence with CSC and was a founder and managing partner for CenTauri Solutions, LLC, before it was acquired by CSC. In his current position, Kelly integrated the former CenTauri defense intelligence practice into CSC’s larger organization to focus …

Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Air Force have hit a milestone in developing and testing the second of four total missile-warning satellites, the company announced Monday.  The team completed final system pivotal performance and functionality tests for the second space based infrared system geosynchronous satellite.  The Bethesda, Md.-based company’s SBIRS contracts include four highly …

  Northrop Grumman Corporation this week hosted the DC Metro Business Leadership Network Business-to-Business Symposium at the company’s corporate office in Falls Church, Va. About 100 corporate, government, nonprofit and BLN members participated in the symposium, titled “Disabled Veterans & Wounded Warriors Outreach: Recruiting, Retaining, Realities and Resources—A Private-Public Day of …

GeoEye has recently appointed Gen. Michael P. C. Carns to serve on its board of directors. He is now a member of the board of representatives of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., which provided financing support for GeoEye’s bid on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s EnhancedView program. “I am excited about serving on GeoEye’s …

Xerox Corp.’s chief technology officer Sophie Vandebroek was selected as the Champion Outie Award winner at the Out & Equal Workplace Summit in Rochester, N.Y. A company release says Vandebroek was recognized as playing a pivotal role in promoting equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees. “Being the …

SAP AG is renewing its platform with SAP HANA led-architecture road map. In accord with this announcement, Gartner Inc. published a new report, “SAP Throws Down the Next Generation Architecture Gauntlet with [SAP] HANA.” The report indicated that it provides CIOs, CTOs, IT planners, enterprise technology architects, application managers and project leaders …