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McAfee Survey Finds Consumers Have $37K in Underprotected Digital Assets
Published on 29 Sep, 2011 at 12:00 in Industry News | Viewed 12 times | No Comments
Consumers place an average value of $37,438 on the “digital assets” they own across multiple digital devices yet more than a third lack protection across all of those devices, according to a new McAfee survey.
In the U.S., people valued their assets at a higher figure than anywhere else, at nearly $55,000.
Research firm MSI International surveyed more than 3,000 consumers in 10 countries about the financial value they would…
Terremark and URS Cloud IaaS DIACAP Certified; Jamie Dos Santos and Randall Wotring Comment
Published on 29 Sep, 2011 at 11:13 in Cyber | Viewed 49 times | No Comments
Terremark and URS Corp.‘s IT business URS-Apptis announced their enterprise cloud: federal edition is to be one of the first infrastructure-as-a-service solutions to be certified as security compliant for the Defense Department. The enterprise has been both tested and verified through the department’s information assurance certification and accreditation process.
The enterprise cloud: federal edition withstood moderate-level FISMA and NIST 800-53 audits for existing federal customers. The infrastructure…
CACI Cybersecurity Report from Threat Symposium Available; CACI CEO Paul Cofoni Comments
CACI International Inc., the U.S. Naval Institute and the Center for Security Policy released the report titled, “Cyber Threats to National Security: Keeping the Nation’s Industrial Base Safe From Cyber Threats.” The report includes recommendations from the fifth Asymmetric Threat symposium.
The Cyber Threats symposium gave shape to the report and featured keynote speakers such as Ambassador John R. Bolton, James S. Gilmore,…
In-Q-Tel and Connectify Secure Strategic Agreement to Advance Wireless Networking
Published on 28 Sep, 2011 at 16:55 in Industry News | Viewed 46 times | No Comments
In-Q-Tel announced it has secured a strategic agreement with Connectify working to advance wireless networking capabilities for the U.S. intelligence community. IQT’s investment will facilitate the development of Connectify’s networking software aiming to create a secure remote networking platform and aggregation technology.
These new technologies would enable users to spontaneously create self-forming virtual private networks without a central location and leverage…
HP Announces Agreement with the ROLF Group
ZAO Hewlett-Packard AO recently announced an agreement with the ROLF Group, a Russian importer of and retailer of cars, to migrate ROLF’s information technology and application infrastructure to an HP cloud environment. The migration of the firm’s IT and applications infrastructure will give its IT staff more flexibility in managing the technology infrastructure.
“Technology is the great…
NVJC Releases White Papers Directing Federal Agencies’ Cloud Journey
NJVC released two white papers on cloud computing titled, “Overview: Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal Agencies” and “The Economic Benefit of Cloud Computing, by Kevin Jackson general manager of NJVC, Cloud Services.
The “Overview” publication, geared toward federal government executives, hones in on cloud computing and its benefits including introductory information, why the government and Obama…
Capgemini, Sybase, SAP Come Together to Provide Mobility Solutions
Capgemini, Sybase, a SAP company, and SAP reported they will be working together in a mobility enterprise venture with multiple agreements and prospective plans to tackle the growing market.
Sybase and Capgemini will manage the deployment of enterprise mobility solutions. This will allow Capgemini to host Sybase Managed Mobility-powered solutions as software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.
Additionally, Capgemini and SAP announced their intention to jointly build…
CenturyLink Company Savvis to Bring Virgin Media Business into the Cloud
CenturyLink Company Savvis today announced its cloud partnership agreement with Virgin Media Business. The terms of the agreement state Virgin Media Business will use Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center, an enterprise-class cloud computing solution.
“We are truly delighted that Virgin Media Business choose Savvis’ enterprise-class solutions for its client base,” said Neil Cresswell, EMEA…
Pitney Bowes Insight Ranked 134th Largest Software Provider by Software Magazine
Published on 28 Sep, 2011 at 14:56 in Industry News | Viewed 65 times | No Comments
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has been ranked 134th in Software Magazine’s 29th Software 500 global ranking of largest world software and service providers.
According to John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com, ”revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $541.5 billion worldwide for 2010, representing approximately 10 percent…
SAIC Evolves Hybrid Language Translation Platform; iPhone App in Works
Science Applications International Corp. is continuing to venture into the language translation field, releasing new SAIC Linguistics software and software-as-a-service offerings and laying the foundation for a commercial iPhone application.
The company said its November 2010 acquisition of AppTek has enabled it to provide a hybrid linguistics platform that employs both statistical and rule-based machine translation technologies for text and…
