Zoom has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the enterprise video communications firm's preferred cloud provider. Under a multi-year partnership agreement, Zoom will continue to leverage AWS’ global infrastructure and portfolio of services, including capabilities in compute, storage, content distribution and security, to create a seamless, secure extension of its data centers.
Read More »$20B Hedge Fund Selects Pavilion to Support SQL Server Applications; Chris McBride Quoted
A New York based Hedge Fund with more than $20 billion in assets under management has selected the Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array (HFA) to power the SQL Server applications to support investment business, Pavilion Data Systems reported on Wednesday. Under the agreement Pavilion will integrate HFA, a disaggregated solution, to support modernized financial operations by revolutionizing how data is used to shape thinking.
Read More »TC Energy Moves Infrastructure to AWS to Improve Operational Efficiency; Mike Clayville, Chris Foster Quoted
Amazon Web Services has announced that TC Energy will move its entire infrastructure to AWS to modernize its infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies, AWS announced on Thursday.
Read More »Unisys Secures $242M Virginia IT Support Contract
Unisys has received a potential six-year, $242.4M contract to provide storage, server and data center services to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. VITA said Wednesday it selected the company after the agency and experts from the state’s executive branch units conducted in-depth studies and evaluations of proposals for the project. …
Read More »ViON to Provide Storage, Back-Up Systems to University of Wisconsin; Tom Frana Comments
The University of Wisconsin has selected ViON to help the UW system’s chief information officers implement storage and back-up platforms to support their information technology projects. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company’s switches, tapes and tape libraries to UW’s 26 campuses worldwide along with storage systems from Oracle, Fujitsu and …
Read More »Iron Mountain Opens New Customer Engagement Facility in Pennsylvania
Iron Mountain has opened a new $4.5 million, 11,600-square-foot customer welcome center called the Guardian Gateway in western Pennsylvania. The facility is located at the company’s underground campus in Boyers that houses storage, imaging, data center as well as data management and restoration operations, Iron Mountain announced Tuesday. “We have deep roots in Butler …
Read More »Protected: Executive Spotlight: Interview with Bill Downer, Sr. Director of National Programs for Seagate
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Read More »ViON Secures Potential $50M Contract for On-Demand Computing Services to SPAWAR
ViON has won a potential seven-year, $50 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide on-demand, on-premise computing, networking and storage services in support of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract has a five-year base value of $34.8 million and covers support for multiple systems …
Read More »Quantum’s Don Maruca on Data Storage Challenges in Govt & Cost Pressures at Agencies
Don Maruca leads the federal sales unit of information storage and security company Quantum, which works with U.S. government agencies to handle large volumes of data and apply new technologies in collaboration and sharing functions. Maruca joined the company in October 2013 as federal sales vice president and holds two decades …
Read More »IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK
IBM will add four new cloud data centers that possess cognitive intelligence capacities in the U.K. to meet a growing client demand. IBM said Monday the new facilities will triple the U.K.’s cloud center capacity as well as support the company’s commitment to deliver new products and services to the country’s market. The …
Read More »DoD Orders Cray Supercomputer, Storage Systems; Fred Kohout Comments
Cray has been awarded a $26 million contract to supply supercomputer and storage systems to the Defense Department as part of DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. The company said Monday it will install one XC40 supercomputer and three Sonexion storage platforms at the Vicksburg, Mississippi-based DoD Supercomputing Resource Center in mid-2017. The Army Engineer Research and …
Read More »Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers
Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from …
Read More »HPE Names Software-Defined & Cloud Group Lead, Storage Business Chief in Series of Exec Moves
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made a set of leadership changes in its hybrid information technology and storage businesses. Ric Lewis, senior vice president and general manager of converged data center infrastructure at HPE, will lead the firm’s software-defined and cloud group, HPE said Monday. These appointments come after HPE announced plans …
Read More »Military & Aerospace: Curtiss-Wright Launches Data Storage Tech for ISR Aircraft
Curtiss-Wright has unveiled a small form factor SWaP-optimized data storage technology for unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles and ISR aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. Mil & Aero staff write the Data Transport System 1-Slot network attached storage delivers up to two terabytes of storage and supports encryption to help protect data at …
Read More »NetApp to Support Seminole County Public Schools through Storage & Backup-to-Cloud Services
NetApp will provide its storage and backup-to-cloud services for data access and application response to more than 40 departments across the public school district of Seminole County, Florida. The company will offer its NetApp FAS8040HA and AltaVault products to assist Seminole County schools in supporting new applications and objectives, meeting workload needs through …
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