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    QTS’ David McOmber: Federal Gov’t Cloud Adoption Focused on Hybrid Infrastructure

    Governments agencies have turned to hybrid cloud platforms in order to both take advantage of cloud capabilities and support legacy systems, QTS Realty Trust Executive Vice President Dave McOmber said in a Federal News Radio panel discussion posted Thursday. McOmber, who is in charge of public sector and federal sales at QTS, participated in the discussion with Bill […] More

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    QTS Gains AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Designation

    QTS Realty Trust has received Advanced Consulting Partner designation from Amazon Web Services after the data center services provider met requirements necessary to help clients manage AWS cloud platforms. QTS said Thursday it invests in technology platforms that support access to AWS and other public cloud providers. AWS consulting partners include professional and information technology services companies that support customers’ efforts to design, architect, build, […] More

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    Avaya: NENA-EENA Collaboration Seeks to Establish Standardized Emergency Response Strategy

    Avaya has reported that the U.S. National Emergency Number Association and the European Emergency Number Association have launched a global effort to develop a standardized strategy for first responders to save lives with modern technology. The company said Wednesday the NENA-EENA partnership seeks to replace legacy first responder systems which were built on platforms that lack the capacity to accept current modes of […] More

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    Leidos’ Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments

    Leidos subsidiary Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies. Systems Made Simple will develop, expand, update, maintain and plan the implementation of functionalities for the VA/DoD Identity Repository, Veterans Information Solution, Health Data Repository and Administrative […] More

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    Oracle’s Mark Johnson: Agencies Should Consider End-to-End App Security Tools in Cloud Transition

    Mark Johnson, director of modern platform for government at Oracle, has said that agencies should consider three factors before moving information technology systems to the cloud and one of them is to adopt end-to-end security platforms. Johnson wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Friday that such security tools should work to protect applications from cyber vulnerabilities […] More

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    Thomas Strickland Named IT Director at ACT I

    Thomas Strickland Jr. has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International as director of information technology to oversee and guide corporate information management operations at the company’s Virginia headquarters. Strickland has more than 25 years of IT development, operations and management experience and will lead ACT I’s efforts to design and implement large-scale systems, according to a company statement. He will […] More

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    SAIC to Set Up Tech Integration Facility in Tennessee; Tony Moraco Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. plans to build a new facility in Cookeville, Tennessee, that will work to provide information technology support to commercial firms, federal civilian and defense agencies as well as local and state government agencies. SAIC will unveil the Technology Integration Gateway facility in the summer of 2017 and add 300 jobs over […] More

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    Red Hat Names SAIC Public Sector System Integrator Partner of the Year; Charles Onstott Comments

    Red Hat has presented Science Applications International Corp. with the 2016 Public Sector System Integrator Partner of the Year for SAIC’s efforts to integrate open-source Red Hat technologies for government clients. SAIC said Tuesday that Red Hat’s open-source offerings support enterprise information technology platforms designed to help federal agency customers address business and infrastructure challenges. “Our relationship with Red Hat is an […] More

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    Highpoint to Offer Professional Services via GSA IT Schedule 70

    HighPoint Global has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70  contract vehicle to offer professional services for federal government agencies. The company said Tuesday it received a potential 20-year contract to provide support under the IT professional services and health IT professional services special item numbers. HighPoint CEO Ben Lanius said the company now holds […] More

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    NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt

    Pete Eichorn, director of technology at Kansas-based government information services provider NIC, has said agencies should work to adopt microservices to develop and build up government digital services and keep up with citizens’ expectations. Eichorn wrote in a GCN article published Monday that microservices work to operate independently and communicate via an application programming interface […] More

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    Reports: Microsoft Develops Custom Windows 10 Offering for Chinese Govt

    Microsoft has developed a customized version of its Windows 10 operating system for the Chinese government through a partnership with state-owned China Electronics Technology Group, Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday. Eva Dou and Yang Jie write CETC helped Microsoft develop the custom Windows 10 offering as the U.S.-based technology firm aims to regain access to the Chinese market and address security demands […] More

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    InquisIT to Help USDA-APHIS Manage IT Systems; Mike McDermott Comments

    InquisIT has secured a five-year, $17.1 million contract to provide information technology management support for a U.S. Agriculture Department organization that works to protect the health of plant and animal resources. The company said Wednesday it will support hardware, software and systems at USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the firm-fixed-price contract. Mike McDermott, president of InquisIT, […] More