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  • IDC: Cloud IT Infrastructure Market's Revenue Grows 25% YoY in Q1 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Cloud IT Infrastructure Market’s Revenue Grows 25% YoY in Q1 2015

    International Data Corp. reports that the global cloud IT infrastructure market achieved a 25.1-percent year-over-year growth in sales revenue to reach $6.3 billion in the first quarter. IDC said Thursday spending also grew from 26.4 percent of overall first-quarter IT infrastructure spending last year to almost 30 percent this year. The growth is due to increasing demand […] 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

  • Tom Frana: ViON Debuts On-Demand Cloud Offering for Public, Private Sectors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Frana: ViON Debuts On-Demand Cloud Offering for Public, Private Sectors

    ViON has unveiled a new cloud service designed to help government and commercial organizations secure information technology infrastructure through on-premise private cloud environments. The ViON on Demand program offers service level agreements for enterprise IT maintenance, upgrade and managed work, ViON said Thursday. Tom Frana, ViON’s CEO, said the company aims for clients to save […] More

  • ViON Releases New Private Cloud Package; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Releases New Private Cloud Package; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. has launched a new private cloud computing package that offers enterprises a set of resources to develop and manage their information technology infrastructure. The Agile Cloud Platform suite includes software, networking, servers and storage with management, advanced monitoring and virtualization capabilities, and round the clock customer and technical support, ViON said Thursday. “ViON’s Agile Cloud Platform offers infrastructure […] More

  • Cisco, Red Hat Expand Partnership Into Open Cloud Collaboration; Paul Cormier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Red Hat Expand Partnership Into Open Cloud Collaboration; Paul Cormier Comments

    Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for enterprise and midmarket customers. “Open […] More

  • IBM Lands 3 New Global Customers for Cloud Applications in Finance Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Lands 3 New Global Customers for Cloud Applications in Finance Industry

    IBM has secured three new global customers in the field of credit and finance that seek to apply the company’s cloud, big data and analytics tools in business processes, eWeek reported Aug. 23. Darryl Taft writes that IBM has added Ujjivan Financial Services in India, Westpac New Zealand and Veda in Australia and New Zealand to its customer […] More

  • HP Infrastructure to Host Avaya Software; Mike Nefkens, Pierre-Paul Allard Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Infrastructure to Host Avaya Software; Mike Nefkens, Pierre-Paul Allard Comment

    HP and Avaya have partnered to combine their technologies into one management product suite, an agreement company executives believe can address growing demand for the service. Under the pact spanning several years, HP infrastructure will host Avaya’s unified communications and contact center software to provide an as-a-service business collaboration tool, the first of its kind in the […] More

  • Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds

    Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

  • George Newstrom: Dell Federal Picked to Develop NRC Cloud Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Newstrom: Dell Federal Picked to Develop NRC Cloud Infrastructure

    Dell Services Federal Government has won a contract to help the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission build and implement a cloud computing infrastructure for the agency to manage on-premise information technology functions. The NRC private cloud will be designed to address IT cost and operational issues and help the commission meet federal cloud migration requirements, Dell said […] More

  • VMware Updates Hybrid Cloud Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Updates Hybrid Cloud Mgmt Tool

    VMware has updated its hybrid cloud management tool for cloud hosting service providers, Great Responder reported Saturday. Maria Dehn writes the new version of the vCloud Connector Tool is developed to various private and public cloud services on a single platform. The tool features interfaces for viewing workloads and creating workload catalogues with multiple cloud synchronization […] More

  • HP Software Used By Air France to Manage Private Cloud IT; Jean-Marc Defaut Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Software Used By Air France to Manage Private Cloud IT; Jean-Marc Defaut Comments

    Air France has selected a Hewlett Packard cloud management platform to monitor physical and virtual cloud computing resources across the airline’s enterprise. The French carrier uses HP’s Cloud Service Automation system with Operations Orchestration and Server Automation software programs to automate application deployments and server provisioning in a private cloud network, HP said Jan. 14. […] More