Brian Roach, vice president of the federal business and managing director for worldwide government at Juniper Networks, says that the Defense Department and other agencies are increasingly using software-defined networking to streamline IT systems. Roach writes in a guest piece published Tuesday on Defense Systems that current government efforts in network consolidation, automation and security drive […] More
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
Wayne Lucernoni, president of Harris information technology services, has indicated that the business unit is working to establish its presence in the market beyond the company’s telecommunications brand, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes that Lucernoni pointed to current campaigns in the healthcare and intelligence sectors and efforts to streamline bidding for future projects. Lucernoni said Harris’ IT services unit aims to focus on […] More
Merger and acquisition deals offer a way for contractors to integrate technology offerings to help government organizations fulfill their missions, Engility CEO Tony Smeraglinolo said Tuesday in a conference keynote adapted for Washington Technology. “Consolidation is undoubtedly a good thing for both the industry and our government partners,” Smeraglinolo told an audience at the 2014 […] More
Hitachi and its subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems have unveiled an x86-based logical partitioning solution for SAP HANA to support server virtualization and network consolidation on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment. The company said Sunday Hitachi LPAR works to provide computing and storage functions for system utilization and to streamline operations with a consolidated infrastructure. Mike Walkey, senior vice president for […] More
Bill Lynn, DRS Technologies and Finmeccanica North America chief executive officer, urges the U.S. government and the defense industry to collaborate on establishing acquisition reform, fostering globalization and consolidating industry operations. Lynn, who is a former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, wrote Tuesday in Breaking Defense that the above actions are expected to ensure that the […] More
Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense business, predicts that government spending cuts worldwide will drive more partnerships and consolidations in the defense sector, Defense News reported Wednesday. Aaron Mehta writes that Chadwick discussed the role of strategic alliances in the industry during a media event held Tuesday at a Boeing corporate office in St […] More
Arnold Punaro expects the defense industry to see greater consolidation as a result of sequestration cuts to the Pentagon budget, he told the Washington Post in a story published Monday. Marjorie Censer writes Punaro, the newly-appointed chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association‘s board of directors, also told the newspaper in an interview that the sector prepared […] More
The surge in consumer demand for big data analytics technology and services could spark consolidation among cloud computing providers, according to Jim Anthony, Terremark vice president of sales engineering. In a Tuesday blog post, Anthony writes that network power, application programming interfaces and service level agreements are necessary to ensure that a cloud infrastructure will […] More
