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  • Informatica Names Finalists of Innovation Awards; Marge Breya Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica Names Finalists of Innovation Awards; Marge Breya Comments

    Informatica has named the finalists across 10 categories for the company’s Innovation Awards competition and will announce the winners at Informatica World 2014, scheduled for May 12 through May 15 in Las Vegas. “The 2014 Innovation Award finalists exemplify organizations that are transforming their businesses through data—innovating new offerings, delighting customers and beating the competition,” […] More

  • Iron Bow Lands 2 Cisco Partner Awards; Rene LaVigne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Bow Lands 2 Cisco Partner Awards; Rene LaVigne Comments

    Iron Bow Technologies has been selected for two 2014 Cisco Partner Summit Global Awards in recognition of Iron Bow’s business practices. Iron Bow won the public sector architectural excellence award and the U.S. architectural excellence award in the data center category, the company announced Thursday. “Many of our customers are looking for innovative solutions to create […] More

  • HP to Deploy Converged Cloud at University in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP to Deploy Converged Cloud at University in India

    India’s KL University has adopted HP Converged Cloud Solutions to centralize the school’s data center operations as the university welcomes more students and works to expand its research facility, CIOL reported Monday.  HP will provide Converged Cloud Solutions tools with a data center to the university for the HP CloudSystem Matrix, according to the report. KL […] More

  • SAP Targets 100% Renewable Energy Usage for Data Centers; Peter Graf Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Targets 100% Renewable Energy Usage for Data Centers; Peter Graf Comments

    SAP plans to transition its data centers and facilities to having 100-percent renewable energy-powered infrastructures in 2014 as part of company efforts to reduce carbon emissions amid its cloud business push. The software conglomerate also targets its 2000 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the company said Monday. Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP, […] More

  • Business School Taps Cisco Server Setup for Data Processing Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Business School Taps Cisco Server Setup for Data Processing Center

    An international business school based in Madrid, Spain has chosen to deploy a unified server platform built Cisco in order to update the school’s data processing center. IE Business School purchased the Cisco Unified Computing System in order to have a centralized computing, network, storage and virtualization setup for the data processing center, Cisco announced […] More

  • David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility

    Computer Sciences Corp. plans to establish a technology center at a Bossier, La.-based cyber research facility, where the company intends to make available 800 jobs in four years. CSC selected the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park being developed by the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City for its planned 116,000-square-foot technology hub under a public-private […] More

  • NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product

    NCS Technologies Inc. has introduced a new computer device that stores user data in a remote server, GCN reported Friday. John Breeden II writes the Cirrus LT zero-client laptop works to connect a computer system to a data center through a remote workstation card with security protocols such as the Advanced Encryption Standard cryptography and […] More

  • CenturyLink Tapped to Provide Colocation Services to eDiscovery Firm KNJ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Tapped to Provide Colocation Services to eDiscovery Firm KNJ

    CenturyLink’s technology solutions unit has been selected to provide colocation services for the additional data center needed for eDiscovery company KNJ’s expansion into forensic technology services, the two companies said Thursday. Drew Leonard, vice president for colocation product management at CenturyLink, said the company will work with KNJ to address its added storage and information […] More

  • Jeff Von Deylen: CenturyLink Aims to Expand Data Center Footprint With IO Tech Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Von Deylen: CenturyLink Aims to Expand Data Center Footprint With IO Tech Deal

    CenturyLink Technology Solutions will use an IO software-defined data center infrastructure to extend its colocation and managed hosting services into the Phoenix market. The CenturyLink subsidiary aims to deliver up to 9 megawatts in data center capacity to Phoenix customers using IO’s Intelligence Control platform, IO said Wednesday. Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink Technology […] More

  • NetApp Starts Construction on Int'l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp Starts Construction on Int’l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments

    NetApp broke ground on a research and development center in Mahadevapura, India intended to support global development and business operations, according to an InformationWeek article. The facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and will contain 25,000 square foot data center on a 15 acre plot. “To enable increasingly multidisciplinary and collaborative work, we want to […] More

  • CenturyLink to Use IO Technology for New Data Centers in Phoenix, Scottsdale - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Use IO Technology for New Data Centers in Phoenix, Scottsdale

    CenturyLink Technology Solutions, formerly known as Savvis, is working to expand its data center reach in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. with the help of IO. Under the partnership, CenturyLink Technology will use IO’s Intelligent Control technology platform to provide control, data collection and business intelligence services across data centers, CenturyLink Technology announced Wednesday. Users and […] More

  • Microsoft Teams with Facebook on Open Compute Project; Bill Laing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Teams with Facebook on Open Compute Project; Bill Laing Comments

    Microsoft Corp. has joined Facebook Inc.’s cloud initiative which aims to develop and share data center infrastructure designs, The Next Web reported Tuesday. Citing a Microsoft blog article, Kaylene Hong writes the software company intends to contribute its cloud server specification for data center hardware to the Open Compute Project. Bill Laing, Microsoft’s corporate vice […] More