CA Launches Enterprise Mainframe Platforms For Cloud; Michael Madden Comments
CA Technologies has unveiled a new set of platforms designed to help enterprises manage data centers across mainframe, distributed and cloud environments. The mainframe portfolio includes products designed to help customers install and upgrade data centers and create dashboards to manage workloads and other functions in one place, ITweb reported Thursday. Michael Madden, general manager [...]
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its intrusion prevention systems portfolio to include new software designed to locate and identify security threats and reduce attacks without slowing network traffic. Each of the three new appliances in the HP TippingPoint NX Series are intended to have customizable interfaces and bypass options, the company said Wednesday. The HP S7500NX, HP S6200NX [...]
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Dell Provides Mobile Computing System for Viewing, Storing Health Info; Ronald Machado Comments
January 22, 2013 No CommentDell is providing a mobile computing system to a healthcare provider for viewing patient information such as electronic medical records, the company said Thursday. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, which handles patients in 16 Florida and Georgia counties, used the system for a year-long pilot in its 55-physician family medicine residency program, where it stored information in [...]
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Cisco has closed its acquisition of privately-held software firm Cloupia for approximately $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives, the company announced Monday. Cloupia’s products, including its infrastructure management software portfolio, and employees will join Cisco’s data center group. Cisco said aims to combine its data center management offerings and Cloupia’s information technology services to [...]
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Cisco Launching New Data Center Certifications; Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn Comments
November 21, 2012 No CommentCisco has unveiled a new data center training and certification program for customers and partners focused on developing a virtualized environment and cloud computing architecture, the company announced Tuesday. Through the career certification portfolio, users will customize their data center education according to a specific job role around design, implementation and troubleshooting. “Roles are transforming [...]
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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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Hewlett-Packard researchers have developed a data center design that would not use traditional power grid energy resources, the company announced Wednesday. HP Labs, the company’s research arm, said it cut total power usage by 30 percent by employing a specific architecture in combination with energy management techniques. Data center dependence on grid power and costs [...]
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is set to integrate health records systems of the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, according to Federal News Radio. In January, the VA said in January it would move its EHR system on DISA-hosted data centers starting in March. VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told Federal News Radio it [...]
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The Army plans to close at least 185 data centers by fiscal year 2014 and is making center consolidation a top priority, the Army’s chief information officer said Friday. Lt. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence told attendees of an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association conference that the military’s future is in joint information enterprise and the [...]
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