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CSC Designs Govt Cloud; James Sheaffer Comments
Published on 11 Jan, 2012 at 14:49 in Cloud | Viewed 25 times | No Comments
Computer Sciences Corporation recently released its infrastructure-as-a-service CloudCompute for Government system, which the company says is designed exclusively for U.S. federal agencies and government personnel.
The company said the multi-tenant community cloud was built under National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines.
“This cloud offering addresses the federal agencies’ need to comply with…
NJVC to Continue NGA IT Enterprise Operations
Published on 10 Jan, 2012 at 12:14 in Industry News | Viewed 110 times | 1 Comment
NJVC will provide information technology enterprise operations and sustainment support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under a $14,125,016 contract modification, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The modification brings the total contract value to $346,941,302 and exercises the contract’s 10th option year. The Pentagon said NJVC’s work will support NGA IT systems at 170 agency sites.
Work is expected to…
Mobility, Social Media Highlight IDC’s 2012 Government IT Forecast
Published on 13 Dec, 2011 at 12:42 in Industry News | Viewed 36 times | No Comments
Operational efficiency, mobility, smart government and economic stability will be the key themes of government investment in information technology for 2012, according to a forecast from IDC Government Insights.
As covered by InformationWeek, IDC predicts governments at all levels will spend nearly $82.4 billion on hardware, software and IT services in 2012.
IDC found…
HP, Microsoft Partner to Deliver Public Cloud Services
HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft Corp. have announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration products via the public and private cloud.
Through the public cloud, Microsoft will deliver its collaboration and productivity tool Microsoft Office 365. A Microsoft release said the companies’ cloud solutions will shift information technology from…
As Govt. Budget Shrinks, Amazon Expands Fed Cloud Sales
The federal government is shifting toward cloud computing and Amazon.com is going in the same direction by expanding its cloud sales to the government.
The online retailer currently provides cloud-based computer services in 100 government offices, including the State and Treasury departments, according to a Washington Post/Bloomberg report. Amazon joins Google and Microsoft…
EMC Scale-Out Storage Deployed at Univ. of Utah
Published on 8 Nov, 2011 at 13:24 in Industry News | Viewed 13 times | No Comments
The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has deployed scale-out network-attached storage provided by EMC Corporation’s Isilon division.
The storage will be used to power the institute’s big data-intensive workflows in various research areas, including biomedicine and geophysics.
An Isilon statement says the institute will benefit from increased returns from information technology investment and simplified…
Data Breach Compromises UNLV Employees Information
Published on 28 Jul, 2011 at 13:50 in Cyber | Viewed 33 times | No Comments
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas announced recently that private information for approximately 2,000 current and former employees may have been compromised back in 2008.
According to the university, the Office of Information Technology discovered what may have been unauthorized activity on a university desktop computer that included names and social security numbers of approximately 2,000 current and former employees who had computer loans and other transactions with the…
DoD Names the Best of the Best in Information Management, Technology
Published on 29 Oct, 2010 at 10:38 in Cyber | Viewed 225 times | No Comments
Defense Department officials has named this year’s winners of the DoD Chief Information Officer awards at a Pentagon ceremony Thursday.
CIOs are used to being in the spotlight when things go wrong, David Wennergren, assistant deputy chief management officer for the office of the deputy secretary of defense, told the audience.
“But every…
Paradigm Wins Subcontract for DOE NNSA IARC Security Operations Center
Published on 14 Oct, 2010 at 11:17 in Industry News | Viewed 90 times | No Comments
IT and cybersecurity provider Paradigm Holdings, Inc. has been awarded a 5-year, $14 million subcontract from OnPoint Consulting, Inc. to support the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Information …
Tiger Woods Gets a Hand from Intelligent Decisions
Published on 11 Oct, 2010 at 10:02 in Industry News | Viewed 317 times | 2 Comments
IT firm Intelligent Decisions announced last week it has become a philanthropic partner of the Tiger Woods Foundation, providing a majority of the IT products and services required to open two Tiger Woods Learning Center Campuses in Washington, D.C.
These facilities focus on using a STEM-based (Science, Technology,…
