SAP’s SuccessFactors Forms Global HR Cloud Partnership; Dmitri Krakovsky Comments
November 14, 2012 No CommentSAP subsidiary SuccessFactors is teaming with a global human resources services provider to deliver payroll and human capital management services in a cloud computing environment, SuccessFactors announced Wednesday. SuccessFactors will integrate its Employee Central customers into euHReka, NorthgateArinso’s global HR and payroll platform. “Our customers are looking for truly global HCM solutions that are not only able to operate consistently in [...]
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Symantec is developing a new cloud computing strategy containing three approaches to cloud adoption, according to a blog post from DLT Solutions. Chris Uttenweiler wrote that he has been working with Symantec to develop a cloud platform that supports communication security, data protection, authentication services, end user protection and event monitoring. Symantec’s cloud strategy will [...]
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HP Moving VA Email, Calendars to Microsoft Cloud; Marilyn Crouther Comments
November 13, 2012 No CommentHP Enterprise Services will move 600,000 users at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Microsoft cloud, the companies announced today. HP will provide a departmentwide email and calendaring infrastructure for Microsoft Office 365 for Government, starting with 15,000 people and eventually expanding to 600,000 when all contract options are exercised. “The VA needed to [...]
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Lockheed Martin will consolidate the Labor Department‘s data centers and move them to a secure data center, then ultimately move them to a cloud computing environment. The company said it won a potential seven-year, $59.4 million contract to help DOL fulfill its part in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (click here to read ExecutiveGov’s [...]
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New HP Testing Software Made for Mobile, Cloud Apps; Subbu Iyer Comments
November 7, 2012 No CommentHewlett-Packard has developed new functional and mobile testing software for information technology organizations to update application development and testing processes as they deliver mobile and cloud computing applications. The company said it designed HP Unified Functional Testing 11.5 and HP UFT Mobile to automate testing earlier in the life cycle, including testing on mobile devices via public [...]
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On the heels of Intel announcing plans for a second $3 billion chip-making factory, NetApp has confirmed they will launch a new data center in the same city, Hillsboro, Oregon known as ‘silicon forest,’ on November 2. According to the NetApp release, the data center will be the hub for all NetApp global customer support monitoring and [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security is preparing a request for proposals for a new continuous monitoring program using a cloud computing infrastructure, according to analysis from Deltek’s GovWin blog. Kyra Kozemchak writes DHS is planning to release the RFP for the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program and for continuous monitoring-as-a-service sometime between December 2012 and March [...]
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Dan Risacher: DoD Has Been Using Open Source Software for More Than a Decade
October 30, 2012 No CommentAccording to a Department of Defense official, the agency has been using open source software for more than a decade, AOL Government reports. Dan Risacher, associate director for information enterprise strategy and policy in the DOD Chief Information Officer‘s office, said that the reach and scope of the open source software used in the agency [...]
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Cisco Systems predicts nearly two-thirds of all data center traffic will be based in a cloud environment within four years, Forbes reports. Citing the company’s Global Cloud Index, Joe McKendrick reports the company estimates global data center traffic to reach 6.6 zettabytes annually by increasing fourfold between 2011 and 2016. Global cloud traffic is the [...]
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AT&T Receives GSA Approval to Provide Agencies Cloud Storage Services; Thomas Harvey Comments
October 25, 2012 No CommentAT&T‘s government solutions business has received authorization from the General Services Administration to offer cloud computing-based storage services to federal agencies, the company announced Thursday. The company will provide its Synaptic Storage-as-a-Service system through the agency’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service blanket purchase agreement. “With its ‘Cloud First’ policy, the Obama administration signaled its strong support for the cloud [...]
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