IBM Targets Cloud-based Analytics with New Purchase

Surveys, predictions and now more acquisitions make top cloud news of recent. IBM announced that it is to buy DemandTec, a web-based enterprise software company with cloud-based analytics solutions, in a $440 million deal. 

According to the company, the merger agreement includes a cash transaction and the addition of DemandTec’s capabilities to IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiatives.

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General Dynamics Builds Email on the Cloud for Feds

General Dynamics Information Technology announced today it has added Email-as-a-Service to its U.S. General Services Administration IT Schedule 70 Contract.  

With the addition, General Dynamics gives federal agencies access to cloud-based email services at a new high speed, said the company.

“Email-a-a-Service enhances email functionality for government agencies and supports the movement to cloud-based applications for flexibility and mobility…

Quest Software Survey Reveals Top Virtualization Initiatives for 2012

According to a Quest Software survey, improving business agility, delivering cost savings, meeting increasingly demanding user expectations and managing the growing mobile workforce will be the top drivers of IT spending on virtualization initiatives in 2012.

More than half of the respondents surveyed revealed that at least 25 percent of their 2012 IT budgets will be allocated to virtualization…

Survey Says.. Businesses on Top of the Cloud

Throughout the last two years, cloud computing has emerged as the Swiss army knife of information technology within the business and government sectors.

The cloud has been marketed and implemented as a way to improve communication, speed up business operations, cut costs and reduce energy consumption.

A global survey, composed of 3,645 IT decision makers in eight different countries, was conducted independently by TNS and funded by CSC. The results provided some…

Public Sector Top Recipient of Targeted Attacks Says Symantec

The public sector has become the most frequently targeted industry of 2011, according to Symantec‘s November 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report. The industry blocks approximately 20.5 targeted attacks a day.

Similar to targeted attacks, global phishing has increased slightly and Web-based malware threats are up 47.8 percent since Oct. 2011 and WS.Trojan.H² was the number one culprit. The public sector…

Thales Acquires Tampa Microwave; Thales USA CEO Allan Cameron Comments

Thales today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire satellite communications firm Tampa Microwave. GovCon Wire covered the story, here.

Tampa Microwave’s core capabilities include the design, development, and manufacturing of SATCOM terminals as well as custom SATCOM engineering and customer support.

According to Tampa, its strategic focus areas will complement Thales’s existing product portfolio and will…

Cisco Outlines Cloud Community Framework

Cisco has been honing in on the cloud in the past week or so, with research about cloud traffic, a tweet chat, webcast and a packaged cloud system announced yesterday. 

The company released information about its Cisco CloudVerse framework, with which Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior (@Padmasree) made herself available on Twitter for cloud trend questioning.

The New…

NIST Adds DNA, Footprints to Biometric Standard

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has added DNA and footprint information to its biometric standard, which details the type and amount of information that forensic scientists can share across their networks.

NIST said in its announcement that this is the first international standard to address sharing of DNA data. NIST also…

British Intelligence Agency Uses Contest to Attract Recruits

Can you crack the code below?

“Help everyone lower loans on housing, ouch wallets are running empty your over under.”

For an experienced “cryptographer,” the message is all but elementary to uncover, as it is written in one of the oldest and most used ciphers. By recording the first letter of each word in the sentence above, and using a little creativity by spacing out the letters, you will find the…

IBM, Zorlu Group Extend IT Services Agreement

Zorlu Group has recently extended its contract with IBM to manage its IT infrastructure. The seven-year agreement, which follows a previous five-year contract between the two firms, calls on IBM to manage Zorlu’s server infrastructure, networks and manufacturing software.

The agreement will also enable IBM to manage Zorlu’s IT services for its 50 companies across 50 separate locations.

“Since…