Zoom has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the enterprise video communications firm's preferred cloud provider. Under a multi-year partnership agreement, Zoom will continue to leverage AWS’ global infrastructure and portfolio of services, including capabilities in compute, storage, content distribution and security, to create a seamless, secure extension of its data centers.
Read More »Iron Mountain Secures Federal Agency Data Center Lease
Iron Mountain will provide colocation services to a federal civilian agency at two data centers in Northern Virginia and Denver under a lease agreement slated to take effect in 2021's second quarter.
Read More »Mercury Systems Offers New Tech for Enhanced Data Center Performance
Mercury Systems has unveiled a new switch fabric module technology designed to help customers build defense-tailored data center architectures.
Read More »CoreSite Receives NIST 800-53 Attestation for Data Center Controls
CoreSite Realty has received attestation from an independent third-party assessment organization for data center controls that are relevant to a set of National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines. Schellman & Company conducted the NIST 800-53 assessment on the real estate investment trust's portfolio of 19 multitenant data centers, CoreSite said Wednesday.
Read More »Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push
Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: An Interview with Rob Davies, EVP of Operations at ViON Corp.
With federal IT budgets under attack and the need to enhance technological capabilities more quickly, agencies are turning to companies like ViON Corporation to provide technology as-a-Service. It was announced in November last year that ViON Corporation, a cloud service provider and IT infrastructure company, had been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview with Davis Johnson, VP of Riverbed Technology’s Public Sector
As if there was not enough instability in our current political climate, Congress has plans to limit funds for the U.S. Army‘s battlefield network development program until they submit a modernization plan for its tactical communications and data networks, according to a recent report by C4ISRNET. The final annual defense …
Read More »MacB Subsidiary Adds Cloud Deployment Feature to Cyber Defense Platform for Govt Clients
MacAulay-Brown‘s Enlighten IT Consulting subsidiary has updated its proprietary cyber defense environment in a push to help government clients implement, manage and secure cloud-based technology. Version 2.5 of the Rapid Analytic Deployment and Management Framework provides an option for potential federal customers such as the Defense Department to deploy more than 40 open source technologies at production …
Read More »Intel to Allot $7B for Future Semiconductor Factory in Arizona; Brian Krzanich Comments
Intel looks to invest more than $7 billion to help complete the development of a new semiconductor factory in Arizona that will work to produce microprocessors for data centers and connected devices. The company said Wednesday it expects the Fab 42 factory to open an estimated 10,000 jobs in Arizona in the …
Read More »John Gould, Brent Behrman to Oversee CyrusOne Sales Operations in EVP Roles
John Gould and Brent Behrman, respectively former president of Stratasys‘ North American business and senior vice president of sales at Compass Datacenters, have joined data center services company CyrusOne‘s sales organization. Gould was appointed executive vice president for global sales and Behrman will serve as EVP for strategic sales, CyrusOne said Wednesday. “As …
Read More »Technavio: Global Defense IT Spending Market to Reach $108B by 2020
Technavio has forecasted that global defense information technology spending will reach $108.4 billion by 2020 as continued demand for IT and technology offerings in the defense industry drive the need for technological support services. The company said Friday the market will see a compound annual growth rate of at least three percent over the forecast …
Read More »Brian Neely Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award
BRIAN NEELY CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER AND CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER AMERICAN SYSTEMS As CIO and CTO for AMERICAN SYSTEMS, Brian Neely leads the overall vision, planning, and management of all technology and information management-related resources throughout the enterprise. Mr. Neely began his career at AMERICAN SYSTEMS in 1996, and has been …
Read More »Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments
Unisys and Microsoft have agreed to expand their global cloud management and security partnership in an effort to help address customer demand for cloud-based cybersecurity tools. As part of the alliance, the companies plan to create new products intended to secure cloud computing systems and Unisys intend to exhibit its new cloud security …
Read More »Carahsoft’s Maryam Emdadi: Gov’t Clients Embrace New Tech for Data Center Agility
Maryam Emdadi, vice president of the EMC team at Carahsoft, has observed some government agencies tapping into modern information technology offerings to address data center agility and security challenges. She wrote in an article published Wednesday that government data centers seek tools intended to simplify administration of virtual desktops and automatically integrate security …
Read More »AT&T, IBM to Integrate Managed IT Service, Cloud Offerings
AT&T and IBM have agreed to further their collaboration as they aim to help organizations manage information technology applications, networks and cloud computing workloads. IBM said Thursday it will oversee AT&T’s managed application and managed hosting services and integrate the offerings into IBM’s cloud portfolio through the partnership. Jon Summers, senior vice …
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