Raytheon Trusted Gateway Added to UCDMO Baseline List

A Raytheon data transfer platform, Trusted Gateway System, has been approved by the Unified Cross Domain Management Office to be on the office’s Version 4.1 Baseline list.

The list contains products using cross domain technologies and solutions. These products are available to agencies in the Defense Department and the intelligence community.

“Effective and secure information sharing…

Salesforce to Acquire Social Cloud Firm

Salesforce.com recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Model Metrics.

Salesforce.com believes the acquisition will help accelerate the company’s ability to both develop and lead the social enterprise in cloud computing, by offering improved services to their customers.

Founded in 2003, Model Metrics is a mobile and social cloud consulting company, which works to help businesses adapt to…

IBM Survey Says Mobile, Cloud Not a Niche

According to the 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report, developers worldwide believe Watson’s analytics capabilities will transform industries that are managing massive amounts of data.

IBM surveyed more than 4,000 information technology professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries who provided their views on future IT trends.

The survey revealed business analytics software is the most…

Symantec Accepts $530M Buyout From Huawei, Firm with Suspected Ties to Chinese Military

Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, which currently owns 51 percent of a joint venture with Symantec, has agreed to purchase the 49 percent it doesn’t own from the American security company.

Symantec said it has reached an agreement to sell its 49 percent stake for $530 million, giving Huawei full ownership of the Hong Kong-based security and storage products provider.

The…

Verizon Grabs New Partner and Dishes Out Tips on Cloud

Verizon picked cloud contact center solution provider inContact to be on its team in hopes to better provide businesses and government agencies with means to communicate via cloud. Additionally, the company has offered up some tips on how to keep that cloud compliant.

Verizon and inContact will be putting forth a suite of cloud based communication services….

DARPA-SAIC Program Aims to Combat Insiders by Tracking Online Activity

A research project led by SAIC Inc. is working on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that can detect suspicious online behavior before an insider creates chaos, according to a report from Defense Systems.

The Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program seeks to create, adapt and apply…

Symantec Finds Small, Midsize Firms Think Cyberattacks Won’t Happen to Them

A recently released study from Symantec Corp. found that most are aware of potential threats, but it seems small and medium businesses don’t think it could happen to them.

The company’s 2011 SMB Threat Awareness Poll revealed high levels of awareness, but did find that SMBs may not be implementing the correct safeguards despite awareness levels, according to the company. The poll…

Quest Grabs Virtual Infrastructure Provider VKernal as New Subsidiary

Quest Software, Inc. announced that it has purchased the privately held company, VKernal, for an undisclosed amount. VKernal is a Boston, Mass. based company that provides virtualized infrastructure operations management.

VKernal’s products include those for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. The company will become a Quest subsidiary and continue to operate independently. 

AT&T Releases PaaS Software to Help Businesses Launch Own Apps

 AT&T has made a push in cloud technology with the unveiling of it’s platform as a service application software.

PaaS serves as a self sustainable cloud based service tool to help businesses customize, develop and launch their own cloud apps to assist with business related tasks.

AT&T believes PaaS will be extremely useful to companies due to a user…

CIBER to Implement Microsoft Systems for Federal Credit Union

CIBER has been selected to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM systems over multiple phases for Security Service Federal Credit Union.

CIBER will begin working by implemented CRM systems used by service centers and call centers personnel.

CIBER says this will simplify workforce training, reduce errors and costs and expedite member care.

CIBER will also handle upgrades for the…