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  • Pivotal, Mirantis Form OpenStack-Based Cloud Foundry Alliance; James Watters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pivotal, Mirantis Form OpenStack-Based Cloud Foundry Alliance; James Watters Comments

    Pivotal and Mirantis have teamed up to offer the Cloud Foundry service on Mirantis’ OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. Under the partnership, Pivotal will run its Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service on Mirantis OpenStack and Mirantis will distribute Pivotal Cloud Foundry to clients, Pivotal said Monday. James Watters, vice president and general manager of the cloud platform group at […] More

  • Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments

    Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds RSA Offerings to GSA Schedule; Robert Moore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds RSA Offerings to GSA Schedule; Robert Moore Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has added the security products and services of RSA, the security division of EMC, to its General Services Administration schedule. Carahsoft serves as the distributor of RSA’s software, hardware and services to the public sector market through the DHS-GSA Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program under the agreement, Carahsoft said Thursday. RSA’s anti-fraud, identity, governance, risk and […] More

  • Executive Profile: Keith Salisbury, US Federal Sales Area Director at Pivotal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Keith Salisbury, US Federal Sales Area Director at Pivotal

    Keith Salisbury serves as area director for U.S. federal sales at Silicon Valley-based cloud computing and big data analytics software maker Pivotal. Salisbury is a 13-year veteran of EMC, where he more recently led that company’s business with defense and intelligence agencies and oversaw a team of more than 1,300 people around the world, with […] More

  • EMC Federation Offers Software-Defined Data Center; Ray O'Farrell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC Federation Offers Software-Defined Data Center; Ray O’Farrell Comments

    EMC has unveiled the first EMC Federation suite that works to deliver an automated, virtual data center as a service, accelerate time-to-deployment of applications and support orchestration workflows. The company said Thursday the Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first of five offerings under EMC Federation, which comprises EMC II, VMware, RSA and Pivotal. Ray O’Farrell, corporate senior vice […] More

  • Bill Ruh: GE-Pivotal Team Creates Industrial Data Lake Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Ruh: GE-Pivotal Team Creates Industrial Data Lake Approach

    GE has collaborated with Pivotal to develop an industrial data lake approach in an effort to help customers analyze large volumes of data. Bill Ruh, vice president of GE Software, said Monday that the company and Pivotal designed the industrial data approach to combine information technology with operational technology so that customers will be able […] More

  • EMC, Pivotal Deploy New Enterprise Big Data Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC, Pivotal Deploy New Enterprise Big Data Offering

    EMC has unveiled a new enterprise-grade big data offering equipped with Pivotal HD that seeks to combine analytics capabilities and a highly scalable infrastructure. The new Data Lake Hadoop storage arrays include EMC Isilon X410 nodes that have been preconfigured for quick deployment as well as the SQL-compliant Pivotal HAWQ query tool for HDFS file […] More