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  • NVTC Unveils FY 2015-2016 Board Roster - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVTC Unveils FY 2015-2016 Board Roster

    The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More

  • Research and Markets: Increased Wireless, Cloud Tech Use to Drive Healthcare Cloud Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Increased Wireless, Cloud Tech Use to Drive Healthcare Cloud Market

    A new Research and Markets report says an increase in demand for wireless and cloud technologies will help drive the healthcare cloud computing market to $12.65 billion in total value by 2020. The report sets the market’s compound annual growth rate at 20.1 percent from 2014 through 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Research and Markets says North America become […] More

  • Microsoft's HoloLens to Aid Int'l Space Station Crew Under NASA's Project Sidekick - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s HoloLens to Aid Int’l Space Station Crew Under NASA’s Project Sidekick

    Microsoft is working with NASA on Project Sidekick to provide virtual training and assistance to the crew of the International Space Station through the company’s HoloLens technology. The space agency said June 26 the project aims to leverage commercial technology for the ISS crew’s empowerment and efficiency. Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS program at NASA, noted the project […] More

  • Microsoft Inks Software Licensing Deal With Commerce Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Inks Software Licensing Deal With Commerce Dept

    The Commerce Department has struck an agreement with Microsoft Corp. for the agency to obtain licenses of the company’s software product. The department said Thursday it will have access to Microsoft software items and product updates under the blanket purchase agreement. Commerce intends for the three-year deal to achieve its productivity goals. Microsoft will also provide access to its license […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Unified Communication Market to Grow 27.50% Year over Year through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Unified Communication Market to Grow 27.50% Year over Year through 2019

    A fresh Research and Markets report has projected the global unified communication-as-a-service market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 27.50 percent from 2014 through 2019. Research and Markets said Wednesday that factors such as productivity, agility, cost reduction and adoption of mobility in unified communication could spur the demand for UCaaS services. “Decline […] More

  • MapR, Microsoft to Offer Hadoop On-Demand Via Azure Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MapR, Microsoft to Offer Hadoop On-Demand Via Azure Cloud

    Microsoft and MapR Technologies are planning to deliver MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop via Azure‘s cloud services and integrate MapR Distribution with Azure Data Lake. MapR said Wednesday the partnership aims to provide Hadoop to clients on demand and enable additional capacity for storage and analytics. Azure customers will also have access to the MapR-DB NoSQL database and MapR Distribution via the Microsoft […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Email Filtering Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Email Filtering Tool

    Microsoft has introduced an email security offering intended to help government and commercial organizations protect their mailboxes against sophisticated threats. The Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection service works to filter out zero-day threats and malicious links in digital correspondence, according to a June 1 blog post by Shobhit Sahay, technical product manager of Microsoft’s Office […] More

  • Microsoft to Update Army And Air Force Exchange Service's Point-of-Sale Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Update Army And Air Force Exchange Service’s Point-of-Sale Systems

    Microsoft has been selected to update the point-of-sale systems of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. The company said Monday it would design and develop a fresh Dynamics AX POS service for the exchange service through August 2016. AAFES intends for the new POS systems to deliver customized offerings to customers using data collected across […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Asia Pacific, Latin America to Drive Future Growth of Healthcare Mobility Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Asia Pacific, Latin America to Drive Future Growth of Healthcare Mobility Market

    A new MarketsandMarkets report projects the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions would drive future growth in the global healthcare mobility solutions market to $84.82 billion by 2020. The market analyst said Thursday both economies have attracted local entrepreneurs and global leaders by modifying healthcare-related regulations and monitoring how policies are implemented. The report also suggests that the growing geriatric population in Japan […] More

  • Technavio's Faisal Ghaus: Mobile Helps Drive Demand for Unified Comms-as-a-Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio’s Faisal Ghaus: Mobile Helps Drive Demand for Unified Comms-as-a-Service

    Technavio has forecast a 28 percent year-over-year growth for the global unified communications-as-a-service market from 2015 to 2019. Faisal Ghaus, a vice president of Technavio, said Thursday the UCaaS market growth is driven by an increase in the use of smartphones for enterprise bring-your-own-device programs. Ghaus projected Asia Pacific will be the biggest adopter of […] More

  • Technavio Sets 8% CAGR for Enterprise IT Security Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio Sets 8% CAGR for Enterprise IT Security Market

    An analysis by Technavio predicts the worldwide market for enterprise information technology security platforms will achieve an average growth of 7.83 percent from 2015 to 2019. Technavio has observed more government and commercial organizations adopting tools to prevent theft and unauthorized access of their enterprise data as well as to mitigate sophisticated threats, Market Research […] More

  • Kip Compton: John Oberon Takes Internet of Things Software VP Role at Cisco - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kip Compton: John Oberon Takes Internet of Things Software VP Role at Cisco

    John Oberon, formerly chief architect, general manager and vice president of engineering at Mashery, has joined Cisco as VP of Internet of Things software platforms. Kip Compton, VP of Cisco’s systems and software group, said Wednesday that Oberon would be responsible for developing platforms designed to provide developers access to Cisco’s IoT infrastructure. “John’s hiring is significant […] More