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  • TechNavio Forecasts 37.96% Global Storage Service Market CAGR in 2015-2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Forecasts 37.96% Global Storage Service Market CAGR in 2015-2019

    TechNavio expects the growing need for data backup and archiving to propel a storage-as-a-service market growth of 37.96 percent annually from 2015 through 2019. The report lists Amazon, AT&T, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft as the tier-one industry players, Technavio said in February. TechNavio classifies the market into stand-alone and platform-attached storage, cloud backup and cloud […] More

  • Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion

    Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow so I think you’ll see […] More

  • CompTIA's Foundation Submits Report on Tech Convergence's Impact on Gov't; Kay Kapoor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CompTIA’s Foundation Submits Report on Tech Convergence’s Impact on Gov’t; Kay Kapoor Comments

    A new report by the Creating IT Futures Foundation discusses how developments in social media, mobility, data analytics and cloud technologies contribute to technology convergence and shape the transformation of government. The foundation said Tuesday the “Federal Technology Convergence Commission Report” to the Office of Science and Technology Policy states that the interconnectivity of technologies continues to change the federal IT […] More

  • Gary May Joins Leidos’ Board of Directors; John Jumper Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gary May Joins Leidos’ Board of Directors; John Jumper Comments

    Gary May, dean of the college of engineering at Georgia Tech, has joined Leidos’ board of directors. He chaired the university’s school of electrical and computer engineering from 2005 to 2011 and served as executive assistant to Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough between 2002 and 2005 prior to his current role, Leidos said Monday. John Jumper, […] More

  • Kay Kapoor Outlines AT&T’s Mobility Projects for Government - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay Kapoor Outlines AT&T’s Mobility Projects for Government

    Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T’s government solutions business and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, has highlighted the company’s mission to provide mobile technology services to government clients through its existing contracts. Kapoor wrote in a blog post published Monday that federal agencies are adopting mobility, cloud services, collaboration tools and analytics to […] More

  • Northrop Sponsors National Cyber Tilt Contestants; Sandra Evers-Manly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Sponsors National Cyber Tilt Contestants; Sandra Evers-Manly Comments

    The Northrop Grumman Foundation is sponsoring 25 high school and three middle school teams who will compete at the final round of the national CyberPatriot competition scheduled on March 13 in Washington. A team of professional aggressors will attack virtual networks and mobile devices and the CyberPatriot VII teams will develop defense methods to protect […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets Forecasts IoT, M2M Comms Market to Reach $947B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets Forecasts IoT, M2M Comms Market to Reach $947B in 2019

    MarketsandMarkets has forecast an Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications market that will grow into a $947.29 billion industry by 2019. The projection represents a 29.9 percent compound annual growth rate from $255.87 billion in 2014, the market analyst said Monday. The report, which highlights market trends, drivers, opportunities, restraints, future growth potential and revenue forecasts per region, suggests an industry faced with […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • Lisa Durant: IT Should Base BYOD Policies on Users, Device, App, Content - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Durant: IT Should Base BYOD Policies on Users, Device, App, Content

    Lisa Durant, a research analyst at Nemertes Research, says information technology companies that adopt bring-your-own-device programs should develop policies for the applications, content, users and their devices to protect the organization from data leaks. Durant wrote in a piece published Monday on AT&T‘s Networking Exchange Blog that administrators should cover these factors in their approach to help facilitate user flexibility and information […] More

  • Kay Kapoor of AT&T on Mentorship in GovCon, 'Mobile First' Shift in Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay Kapoor of AT&T on Mentorship in GovCon, ‘Mobile First’ Shift in Gov’t

    Kay Kapoor joined AT&T in March 2013 to lead the telecommunications company’s federal business, which has seen several other GovCon and public sector veterans join the organization’s leadership team since then. Kapoor, herself a 25-year telecommunications and contracting veteran, is the recipient of this year’s ACT-IAC Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award in recognition of her mentorship […] More

  • Executive Profile: John George, ICF SVP and CIO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: John George, ICF SVP and CIO

    John George serves as senior vice president and chief information officer at ICF International, which he joined in 2012 from a prior role at Vangent as chief information and innovation officer. At Vangent, he led the implementation of technology the company used for customer-facing and internal systems. His private sector career includes technical and management […] More

  • Executive Profile: Mark Guthrie, Lexmark Government Solutions VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mark Guthrie, Lexmark Government Solutions VP

    Mark Guthrie serves as vice president of Lexmark Government Solutions. Since January 2010 he has led the organization responsible for delivering offerings and services intended to help federal government personnel around the world achieve mission objectives.  Prior to his current role, Guthrie led Lexmark’s federal solutions team as its director for eight years. He was also […] More