Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Ashish Mahadwar, formerly a Cognizant senior vice president, has joined Computer Sciences Corp. as executive vice president and general manager for that company’s strategic business. Mahadwar will report to CSC President and CEO Mike Lawrie and will be responsible for promoting growth in the company’s line of big data, cloud computing and cybersecurity products and services, the company said Wednesday. […] More
Red Hat is urging enterprises to adopt virtualization for their IT infrastructures and data centers to foster operational and cost efficiencies. In an infographic posted Monday on the Red Hat website, the company illustrates the path to innovation, from modernizing the data center, to standardizing operations and to virtualizing IT resources, in order to realize positive business […] More
Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a new cloud encryption tool for customers to protect sensitive data, Infotech Lead reported Thursday. HP designed the Atalla cloud encryption system to secure data residing in the cloud and on enterprise premises such as emails, payment data and electronic health records, according to the report. Financial institutions, retailers, energy firms, […] More
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released the findings of a study to evaluate the potential relationship between cloud computing usage and how businesses have marked up their agility and competitiveness. Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of 527 HBR readers from large and mid-size organizations worldwide in order to find out the views of businesses and government organizations […] More
IBM Corp. and Beijing have forged an agreement to develop weather forecasting and cloud computing systems in a move to cut smog emissions in China, Reuters reported Sunday. David Stanway writes IBM will work to collect real-time data on pollution trends and forecast development of smog as part of the company’s 10-year Green Horizon initiative […] More
FireEye has moved to expand its threat detection capabilities by incorporating traditional email security features into the company’s offering. The FireEye Email Threat Prevention Cloud tool has been updated with anti-spam and anti-virus protection systems, FireEye said Tuesday. “By unifying our advanced threat detection capabilities with the traditional email security tools enterprises have relied on, organizations can now […] More
IBM Corp. has introduced a new big data service offering on its cloud marketplace in an effort to help customers manage enterprise-wide business content. Clients are able to gain access to business content using browser, desktop and mobile platforms in a synchronized and secure environment through the big data service on the IBM Cloud marketplace, […] More
CGI has been awarded an $89 million contract to help the state of Michigan implement a new enterprise resource planning system for managing government business functions. The company will provide its Advantage ERP platform and Managed Advantage cloud technology to Michigan’s government with the goal of helping state agencies boost operational efficiency, CGI said Monday. […] More
Teresa Carlson, global public sector vice president at Amazon Web Services, has said the company is working to better communicate the value of cloud services to non-commercial organizations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that Carlson spoke Wednesday at the annual AWS conference that drew executives from the government and nonprofit sectors to […] More
Royal Philips and salesforce.com have formed a partnership to combine their respective medical technology, clinical informatics, cloud computing and customer engagement offerings to develop an open source, cloud-based healthcare IT platform. The parties said Thursday the platform will be designed to enable personal health management and remote health monitoring and support the Philips Hospital to Home programs. “We have entered […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. will offer three new services to enterprise and public sector customers as part of the company’s work to expand its cloud cybersecurity portfolio, CSC said Tuesday. CSC’s Cloud Cybersecurity Services program works to offer tools from vendors in an effort to help customers migrate into cloud environments and the company will help manage […] More
Neustar has moved to combine its identity and data management offering with an Aerospike-developed in-memory NoSQL database. Marketers have an integrated online and offline view into real-time customer and media insights through Neustar’s PlatformOne tool in order to develop services on demand, Aerospike said Tuesday. Neustar intends for the Aerospike database to manage large volumes […] More
