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  • Andras Szakal: IBM, Cloud Service Providers Adapt Offerings to Meet Client Demands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andras Szakal: IBM, Cloud Service Providers Adapt Offerings to Meet Client Demands

    Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s U.S. federal business, has participated in a panel discussion that tackled how public sector organizations utilize and acquire cloud services, Sys-Con Media reported Wednesday. Dana Gardner writes Szakal discussed how cloud service providers have created purpose-built cloud environments for federal government entities which have enterprise applications that […] 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

  • Siemens, IBM Launch Alliance to Help Promote Application of Population Health Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, IBM Launch Alliance to Help Promote Application of Population Health Management

    IBM and Siemens have launched a global alliance to support efforts by health providers to treat patients with complex and chronic illnesses such as heart diseases and cancer. The alliance seeks to assist hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks and other providers in value-based patient care through the Population Health Management platforms, IBM said Tuesday. Siemen’s Healthineers subsidiary will offer PHM services […] 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

  • IBM Develops Documentation Software for Social Services Grant Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Develops Documentation Software for Social Services Grant Program

    IBM has developed a software tool to help nonprofit social service organizations evaluate and document their initiatives as part of the company’s $18 million grant program. IBM said Thursday its free cloud-hosted SafetyNet software works to support record keeping and analysis to help organizations address budgetary accountability, program quality and customer service issues. SafetyNet is based on IBM Curam‘s open source technology […] More

  • IBM Installs Watson in Aerialtronics Drones; Harriet Green Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Installs Watson in Aerialtronics Drones; Harriet Green Comments

    IBM has installed the company’s Watson cognitive computing system in Aerialtronics’ unmanned aircraft systems in an effort to help teams gain a complete view of their surroundings and analyze captured imagery. Aerialtronics’ Watson-equipped drones will work to capture images and send them to the IBM Watson Internet of Things Platform on IBM Cloud in near […] More

  • Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020

    A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, predicts the global private and public cloud market in financial services industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The 107-page market research report incorporates analysis and inputs from industry professionals and covers the market landscape and its growth forecast over the next […] More

  • IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation

    A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

  • IBM's Justin Chua: Orgs Should Factor Security, Market Timing, ROI Into Cloud Migration Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Justin Chua: Orgs Should Factor Security, Market Timing, ROI Into Cloud Migration Projects

    Justin Chua, cloud leader at IBM‘s Institute for Business Value, has said a new IBV study highlights several factors that organizations may want to consider if they opt to migrate information technology functions into cloud infrastructure. Chua wrote in a blog article published Sept. 1 that companies must first decide what application to move to the cloud and address transition roadblocks when […] More

  • SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni to Speak at Cambridge Cyber Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni to Speak at Cambridge Cyber Summit

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, will deliver a speech at the one-day Cambridge Cyber Summit, Delawareonline.com reported Wednesday. Jeff Mordock writes the cybersecurity conference will be held on Oct. 5 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will cover various topics such as cyber attacks, privacy, cyber countermeasures and public-private collaboration. Other speakers at the […] More

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • IBM Awards Grants for Five Healthcare Projects; Jen Crozier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Awards Grants for Five Healthcare Projects; Jen Crozier Comments

    IBM has selected five domestic and international organizations to receive public health-related pro bono consulting services worth a total of $2.5 million under the company’s Health Corps program. The winning projects aim to provide chemotherapy medicines in sub Saharan Africa, track and control Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases in Taiwan and Panama, perform health interventions in southeastern U.S. and […] More