BlackBerry has joined the National Cyber Security Alliance, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with the Department of Homeland Security, corporate sponsors and nonprofit representatives to promote digital privacy and raise awareness on cybersecurity. Edward Hearst, vice president of U.S. government business development at BlackBerry, will represent the company on the NCSA …
Read More »Lockheed Forms Healthcare Tech Alliance; Horace Blackman Comments
Lockheed Martin has formed a healthcare technology alliance to consolidate the health information technology services of partners such as academic institutions and medical technology firms. The company said Wednesday group members include Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina, Intel and Montgomery College. Alliance members will work to develop technology services for efforts to protect patient data, …
Read More »Intel Security, Aspen Institute: Critical Infrastructure Firms Seek Public-Private Cyber Info Sharing
A survey report by Intel‘s security business and the Aspen Institute points to a rising demand for public-private partnerships on threat intelligence sharing among information technology decision-makers for critical infrastructure organizations. An article published Tuesday on Cyber Security Dojo reports that 86 percent of the 625 respondents in the multicountry survey …
Read More »Cray Lands Storage, Supercomputer Supply Contract With Australia Meteorology Bureau; Peter Ungaro Comments
Cray has received a potential $53 million contract to provide a storage system and a computer intended for large-scale data processing for Australia’s meteorology bureau. The company said Tuesday the agency will use the Cray Sonexion 2000 storage platform and Cray XC40 supercomputer to run weather models. Sonexion 2000 has a storage capacity …
Read More »HP-Intel Alliance Aims to Help Enterprises Manage Big Data Workloads Via New Center
Hewlett-Packard and Intel have formed a partnership to establish a new center in Grenoble, France to provide engineering and technical support for enterprises as they deploy platforms to manage big data and analytics operations. HP said Monday it will combine its Apollo server-based High Performance Computing Solutions Framework with Intel’s …
Read More »Report: Global Aviation Cybersecurity Market Worth $1B in 2015
A new Visiongain report released by Reportbuyer indicates that the global aviation cybersecurity market will reach a value of $1.8 billion this year as the sector works to protect its information and computer technologies. “Disruption of this sector would invariably have a profound effect on the global economy and more widespread …
Read More »MarketsandMarkets: Interconnectivity to Drive Machine-to-Machine, Internet of Things Market Growth
A MarketsandMarkets study predicts the machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things market to be worth $947.29 billion by 2019 due to an increase in the use of Internet-connected devices. The market research firm said Wednesday the M2M and IoT market will experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent in …
Read More »5 Named to U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame
U.S. News & World Report has selected this year’s STEM Leadership Hall of Fame award honorees, citing their leadership in education and workforce development programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The Hall of Fame inductees are: Craig Barrett, retired chairman and CEO of Intel Eduardo Padron, president of Miami Dade …
Read More »MarketsandMarkets: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $170B by 2020 at 9.8% CAGR
A MarketsandMarkets study reports that the cybersecurity market will reach a value of $170.2 billion by 2020 due to the continued evolution of cyber threats and the corresponding increase in strictness of government cyber regulations. The company said Wednesday the market will grow from $106.3 billion in 2015 at a five-year compound annual growth …
Read More »Jorge Titinger: SGI to Work with Idaho National Lab in Energy Research, Simulations
SGI Corp. has won a contract to collaborate with ComnetCo on energy research and simulations for the Idaho National Laboratory. SGI will supply its ICE X system intended to power nuclear reactor simulations at the lab’s high performance computing center, SGI said Wednesday. “SGI is pleased to work with INL once …
Read More »SoftServe, Intel to Develop ‘Intel Edison’-Based Internet of Things Platforms; Yuri Mykolyshin, Juan Turruellas Comment
SoftServe and Intel have formed a partnership to develop Internet of Things platforms and image recognition systems using Intel’s development board. SoftServe said Thursday it will also work to develop detection technologies using Intel Edison platform, which is designed for use in making connected devices. Yuri Mykolyshin, Intel head of …
Read More »Research and Markets: ‘Smart Cities’ to Help Drive Internet of Things Security Through 2019
Research and Markets predicts that the global Internet of Things security market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 54.93 percent through 2019 . The company said Friday its latest market report points to compliance with regulatory requirements among “smart cities” that use IoT technology as the main driver of …
Read More »Concurrent Technologies Receives Intel-Based Computer Board Order from US Navy
The U.S. Navy has tapped Concurrent Technologies Inc. to supply Intel-based computing boards for the service’s various aircraft research projects, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has ordered eight VME single-board computers embedded with a two-core 1.7 Gigahertz Core i7 microprocessor and …
Read More »Intel to Integrate eASIC Platform With Xeon Processors; Diane Bryant Comments
Intel has partnered with eASIC to develop technologies that integrate processing capabilities with customizable hardware in an effort to meet demand for custom application-specific integrated circuits to perform accelerated computing functions in the cloud and data centers. Intel said Tuesday future Intel Xeon processors will use eASIC platform technology in efforts to boost flexibility and time …
Read More »Technavio: Smart Tech to Help Drive IoT Security Market Growth Through 2019
Technavio has forecast a 55 percent compound annual growth rate for the worldwide Internet of Things security market over the next four years. The research firm said Tuesday that security regulations and the development of smart cities will drive industry growth. “With so much information passing between people, governments are …
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