One year since Unisys implemented a Google cloud computing platform for the U.S. General Services Administration, agency employees have created and shared more than 274,000 documents and created 500 internal websites using the platform. The company said GSA selected Unisys to install Google Apps for Government in 2010 and the agency began using Google’s email [...]
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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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Accumulo, a big data storage software program developed by the National Security Agency, could soon be sold on the commercial market as a company owned by NSA technologists has partnered with Hadoop to take the program to market. According to InformationWeek, Sqrrl has raised $2 million in venture funding and the NSA submitted Accumulo to [...]
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Unisys has completed its transition of 5,000 personnel at the Energy Department‘s Idaho National Laboratory to a Google cloud-based email and collaboration platform, Unisys announced Wednesday. Battelle Energy Alliance, DOE’s management and operations contractor for the lab, awarded Unisys the contract in August 2011 to implement Google Apps for Government. Anthony Hess, group vice president [...]
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Google on Buying Spree, Acquired 79 Companies Last Year, Lawrence Lenihan Comments
September 19, 2012 No CommentIn 2011, Google acquired 25 companies or 79 total if you count the startups it bought for intellectual property rights or patents, according to The Verge. Not only does Google rapidly buy smaller tech firms but it has an astounding track record of integrating employees of former startups into the company according to the [...]
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The Labor Department is seeking a contractor to move its email and collaboration tools to a cloud computing infrastructure, Nextgov reports. Citing a Wednesday request for proposals, Joseph Marks reports the department wants the single email system to combine separate legacy systems from the department’s nine major divisions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics would have [...]
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Google‘s enterprise platform for the government and businesses is set to get a new feature for defining email routing rules, Computerworld reports. Juan Carlos Perez reports Google wants to bring its Postini email security offerings into Google Apps, with the goal of bringing all of Postini into the enterprise. Businesses, schools and government agencies use [...]
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Google has acquired a Redwood City, Calif.-based social media marketing company with the goal of expanding opportunities for customers to engage on all platforms, Computerworld reports. According to John Ribiero’s article, Google’s buy of Wildfire is one of several transactions in the technology industry targeted towards social media. Within the last three months, Oracle has [...]
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Google plans to release a cloud-based big data service for analyzing large sets of data from external sources, Information Week reports. The Internet company told GigOm Structure Data conference attendees it is offering its Google Big Query solution in a limited beta preview, according to the report. The big data solution allows users to analyze [...]
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