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  • FireEye Report Notes Challenges in Alert Mgmt at Large Enterprises; David Bianco Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Report Notes Challenges in Alert Mgmt at Large Enterprises; David Bianco Comments

    A new FireEye report indicates that many large enterprises in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe experience challenges in managing security alerts due to concerns on budget, quality and response times. The company said Thursday its “The Numbers Game: How Many Alerts is too Many to Handle?” report points to low budgets, quality perception gaps, lagging response times […] More

  • IDC: Global SaaS Applications Market to Reach $51B Worth by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Global SaaS Applications Market to Reach $51B Worth by 2018

    A new IDC report forecasts the global software-as-a-service market to grow to $50.8 billion in value by 2018. The market research firm published this month a study that indicates the SaaS market will grow at a compound annual rate of 17.6 percent for the five-year forecast period. “Demand for SaaS enterprise applications is accelerating and exceeding […] More

  • IDC Predicts IoT, Cloud, Big Data Roles for World's Governments in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Predicts IoT, Cloud, Big Data Roles for World’s Governments in 2015

    International Data Corporation has revealed its 2015 predictions for the world’s governments based on the results of its FutureScape survey on the industry. The market analyst, which launched the forecast report at a recent web conference, said Thursday that public sector communities in many regions may be on the verge of an important change, and highlighted technology’s […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018

    A new forecast from International Data Corp. predicts public information technology cloud services spending will grow to more than $127 billion in 2018 from the $56.6 billion projected for 2014. That IT cloud spending growth represents more than 50 percent of software, server and storage spending worldwide in 2018, IDC said Monday. “Over the next four to five years, IDC expects the […] More

  • IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018

    International Data Corp. projects a 26.4 percent compound annual growth rate for the big data technology and services market to $41.5 billion in value by 2018 and sees a slower pace of growth for certain individual segments. The company said Sept. 15 that its “Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2014-2018 Forecast” report forecasts big data to continue to lead growth in the […] More

  • IDC's Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC’s Melanie Posey Outlines Considerations for Subscription-Based Software Adoption

    Melanie Posey, research vice president of IDC’s hosting and managed network services, has described three factors she believes enterprises should consider before adopting subscription-based software offerings. Posey wrote in a blog post published Monday that enterprises must conduct audit on the software they are buying to allocate workloads between perpetual license and subscription models. “There are […] More

  • Drew Morin: TCS to Integrate Cyber Training Modules into Sypris Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drew Morin: TCS to Integrate Cyber Training Modules into Sypris Platform

    TeleCommunication Systems has been awarded a contract to design a cybersecurity training program for Sypris Electronics. Drew Morin, senior vice president and chief technology officer at TCS, said his company formed the partnership with Sypris to help enterprises defend their networks. “TCS and Sypris are joining forces to provide customers with the integrated Sypris Cyber Range solution (within a platform that […] More