Tag Archives: Networks

Davis Johnson joined application and network services provider Riverbed Technology in April 2015 as vice president of a U.S. public sector business that works with government agencies that want new tools to manage network performance in their enterprise. Founded in 2002, San Francisco-headquartered Riverbed is known in the technology sector as the …

Dell and Software AG have launched an Internet of Things architecture offering intended to help enterprise customers analyze real-time data from networks, devices and sensors. The integrated offering combines Dell’s Edge Gateway 5000 Series and an embedded version of Software AG’s Apama Streaming Analytics to support real-time analytics at the edge of …

Travis Rosiek, chief technology officer at FireEye‘s federal division, has told Carahsoft in an interview published Wednesday he believes fragmented and complex networks at agencies affect their efforts to adopt cybersecurity technology. Rosiek added that policy, budget, acquisition and human resource management gaps in the government has prevented agencies from implementing cyber readiness strategies. He has identified …

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government …

Unisys has unveiled a new security appliance that the company designed to encrypt sensitive data and make enterprise networks inaccessible to unauthorized users, Network World reported Monday. David Strom writes that Unisys’ Stealth product works by cloaking communication endpoints to keep hackers out of the network. The company built the …

David Chalmers, vice president and chief technologist of enterprise group at Hewlett Packard, recently spoke at an HP conference in Barcelona, Spain about the ways big data and networking solutions have helped different governments keep up with technological innovation, ITProPortal.com reported Thursday. Paul Cooper writes Chalmers mentioned during the HP Discover …

Hughes Network Systems has launched a new portfolio of managed network and digital media products intended to help customers in the enterprise and government sectors monitor broadband network and customer traffic to help manage applications. HughesON Performance Optimization technologies are built to help customers use on-premise equipment in building an …

Cisco and Saudi Arabian Airlines signed an agreement to establish a networking academy in Saudi Arabia as the country is embarking on a $100 billion redevelopment project in one of its cities. The Cisco Networking Academy will be based in the King Abdullah Economic City and aim to teach students …

Cisco has completed its purchase of privately-held Cariden Technologies Inc. for approximately $141 million in cash and retention-based incentives, Cisco announced Monday. Cariden, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., provides network planning, design and traffic management solutions to telecommunications service providers. Cariden’s team will join Cisco’s service provider networking group and Cisco …

Serco‘s U.S. subsidiary has won a potential $68 million contract to perform hardware integration and testing work for the U.S. Navy‘s digital network systems, the company announced Tuesday. The potential five-year contract contains a one-year base period and four one-year options and the company said it will expand into a …

NetApp has acquired network attached storage caching vendor CacheIQ for an undisclosed amount, Howard Marks reported Tuesday for Network Computing. CacheIQ sells flash memory-based caching appliances and received $6 million in funding in its first two years. According to Howard, CacheIQ may have been part a reboot of StorSpeed, an earlier …

Xerox Corp. will provide the city of San Diego with network, voice and data communications services, the company announced Tuesday. Under a five-year, $57 million contract, the company will merge the city’s existing telecommunications network infrastructure into a single digital network for voice and data communications. “Our priority is to …

Iridium is among the few satellite operators Twitter is partnering with in the U.S. to expand the social network’s short message service reach, ZDNet reports.  Twitter plans to give subscribers access to SMS capabilities on any mobile device, according to ZDNet. The aim is to provide users pertinent information in cases …

As the federal government continues to pursue areas such as telework, mobility and cloud, cyber risks will become more apparent. It also means that cybersecurity will continue to be a top market for the government contracting industry. A recent article from Washington Technology outlines the cyber needs of many federal …

Noblis has been awarded a patent for a “System and Method for Improving Network Resiliency.” The system was invented by Noblis Senior Fellow David Garbin and Joseph Knepley Jr., and was developed to toughen network infrastructures in environments where  traditional methods frequently fail. The system analyzes the underlying physical characteristics …