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  • Catapult Unveils New Methodology to Support Government Data Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catapult Unveils New Methodology to Support Government Data Analysis

    Catapult has unveiled a new data analysis methodology in an effort to change and update the way the government processes data and delivers insight. The company said Thursday it presented a pilot project on the use of the Agile Analytics methodology on the Microsoft Azure cloud-hosted Business Analytics and Reporting data platform during a forum organized by the Texas […] More

  • Microsoft Rolls Out New Azure Government Security Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Rolls Out New Azure Government Security Program

    Microsoft has released a new program in support of its Azure Government offering to help government agencies and third-party providers comply with regulations when they use the service. The initial release of Azure Blueprint program is designed to help information system security officers define responsibilities for each security control in a cloud ecosystem, Microsoft’s Nate Johnson […] More

  • CloudPassage Gains FedRAMP Ready Status Under Fast-Track Cloud Provider Authorization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudPassage Gains FedRAMP Ready Status Under Fast-Track Cloud Provider Authorization Program

    CloudPassage has secured a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready status under the first of a three-phase process that cloud service providers go through to receive an authorization to operate. CloudPassage said Wednesday it used the company’s Halo software-as-a-service platform to gain the designation through the FedRAMP Accelerated process. Halo is included on the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors, […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 25.6% Cloud Computing CAGR in Education Market by 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 25.6% Cloud Computing CAGR in Education Market by 2021

    A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 25.6 percent for the global cloud computing in education market over the next five years. The 151-page report estimates that revenue for education-related cloud computing products and services will reach $25.36 billion by 2021 from $8.13 billion in 2016, the RnR Market Research said Oct. 6. Public cloud deployment type is projected […] More

  • Tenable to Support NIST Special Publication for Compliance Reports - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tenable to Support NIST Special Publication for Compliance Reports

    Tenable Network Security will support a National Institute of Standards and Technology special publication in an effort to aid systems integrators and non-federal organizations on reports with regards to compliance. The company said Thursday the NIST SP 800-171 offers federal contractors, service providers and non-federal organizations a capacity to continuously monitor, measure and communicate adherence to NIST’s technical […] More

  • Carahsoft to Supply VMware Virtualization Products to New Jersey School Boards Association - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Supply VMware Virtualization Products to New Jersey School Boards Association

    Carahsoft Technology has received a contract from the New Jersey School Boards Association for various VMware products to help provide local school districts and charter schools access to virtualization technology. Carahsoft said Monday its VMware software, hardware, cloud and professional services portfolio will work to support efforts to establish or continue digital learning programs as part of NJSBA’s Technology for […] More

  • Red Hat Symposium to Focus on Government IT Modernization; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Symposium to Focus on Government IT Modernization; Paul Smith Comments

    Red Hat will hold its annual symposium Nov. 2 in Arlington, Virginia to highlight the role of open source technology in digital transformation efforts across the government sector. The company said Wednesday it expects the 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium to draw more than 650 government and industry professionals to help address information technology challenges that public sector agencies face. Paul Smith, senior vice president and […] More

  • CyrusOne Continues Phoenix Data Center Campus Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Continues Phoenix Data Center Campus Expansion Efforts

    CyrusOne has acquired an additional 29 acres of land at the Continuum Business Park in Chandler, Arizona, in support of the company’s expansion efforts in the West Coast. The land purchase extends the company’s Phoenix data center campus to above 85 acres and approximately 2 million square feet of data center space to deliver cloud, internet and data center infrastructure services, the company said […] More

  • Unisys Appoints Security Vets to Support APAC Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Appoints Security Vets to Support APAC Operations

    Unisys has appointed Alan Chan as business development director; Leon Mason as senior pre-sales architect; and Ashwin Pal as security delivery director to support the company’s operations in the Asia Pacific region, SecurityBrief NZ reported Tuesday. Sara Barker writes Chan will oversee Unisys’ Australia and New Zealand security business; Mason will aid customers across the Asia-Pacific region; and Pal will help the company […] More

  • IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency

    IBM’s Australian arm has received a potential six-month, $2.4 million contract to provide an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform for a federal government agency in Australia, ZDNet reported Friday. Asha McLean writes the contract with the Australian Taxation Office comes a month after IBM received approximately $5.3 million in contracts from Australia’s five federal agencies that include the departments […] More

  • DARPA, Air Force Tap PAR Technology Subsidiary for Media Forensics R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Air Force Tap PAR Technology Subsidiary for Media Forensics R&D Contract

    The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have awarded a $7.2 million contract to a PAR Technology subsidiary to develop digital media forensics technology. PAR Government Systems will apply its experience in image and video processing, cloud computing, data analytics and digital media forensics to support DARPA’s Media Forensics research-and-development program, the company said Tuesday. Matt […] More