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  • Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center

    Verizon Terremark is adding 4 megawatts of power capacity in its Santa Clara, Calif. data center by installing Active Power electrical infrastructure containers in the roof, Data Center Dynamics reported Friday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes that the PowerHouse containers are intended to grow capacity without expanding the building and are built with uninterruptible power supply systems, switchgear and monitoring […] More

  • SAP Joins Verizon Cloud Ecosystem; John Harrobin, Bob Grazioli Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Joins Verizon Cloud Ecosystem; John Harrobin, Bob Grazioli Comment

    Verizon‘s enterprise services arm will offer its cloud computing customers access to the SAP HANA platform. SAP intends to deploy its cloud platform to customers through Verizon’s ecosystem that comprises of the eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud environments, Verizon said Wednesday. John Harrobin, chief marketing officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company […] More

  • Savvis Is Renamed 'CenturyLink Technology Solutions;' Jeff Von Deylen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Savvis Is Renamed ‘CenturyLink Technology Solutions;’ Jeff Von Deylen Comments

    CenturyLink has changed the name of its data hosting business Savvis with the goal of reflecting a collective offering of enterprise information technology services. Savvis has been renamed CenturyLink Technology Solutions and will led by President Jeff Von Deylen, CenturyLink announced Tuesday. “Though our name is changing, our customers will continue to be served by the same […] More

  • VMware to Launch 4th Annual Data Center Research Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware to Launch 4th Annual Data Center Research Competition

    VMware wants university researchers to participate in the company’s fourth annual data center automation competition with a prize of a $150,000 grant up for grabs, Cloud Pro reported Friday.  Jane McCallion writes that researchers for the 2014 Academic Research Awards are being asked to explore matters related to scalable machine learning, algorithms, design patterns, data intensive […] More

  • MarketsandMarket Issues Five-Year Gov’t Cloud Market Forecast - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarket Issues Five-Year Gov’t Cloud Market Forecast

    Research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that analyzes and forecasts the trends for the government cloud market from 2013 to 2018. Information technology and software services providers will find business opportunities as governments shift spending on data center and cloud services, MarketsandMarkets said Thursday. Government agencies will continue to transition to […] More

  • QuinStreet Study IDs Data Center Investment Factors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QuinStreet Study IDs Data Center Investment Factors

    A new study from QuinStreet Enterprise indicates that enterprise customers continue to invest in data centers due to uptime, availability and security, Datamation reported Thursday. Paul Shread writes the “2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation — Where Is Your Enterprise?” report stated 88 percent of 321 information technology professionals spend on data centers. Amazon, Dell […] More