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 [...]
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DMI announced today that it is joining 7 Delta, Inc’s. and Harris Corp.’s teams to support the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Chief Information Officer in streamlining and modernizing its IT infrastructure through the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Program. The program will enable the VA to acquire services for information technology services that [...]
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Microsoft Corp. and AgreeYa Mobility today announced a protocol licensing agreement that allows AgreeYa Mobility solutions to interoperate with select Microsoft enterprise applications and services. The agreement will enable AgreeYa Mobility to create solutions for non-Microsoft mobile platforms that connect with Microsoft enterprise back-end systems. “The consumerization of IT presents a challenge for our enterprise [...]
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Maersk Line recently announced it has signed a $150 million agreement to outsource its IT infrastructure to HP. The five-year agreement requires HP to create a private cloud computing environment for Maersk’s distributed and local applications using HP Cloud Computing Solutions. HP will provide employment to all Maersk Line staff within the areas of desktop and notebook PCs. [...]
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According to the 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report, developers worldwide believe Watson’s analytics capabilities will transform industries that are managing massive amounts of data. IBM surveyed more than 4,000 information technology professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries who provided their views on future IT trends. The survey revealed business analytics software is the most widely [...]
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Quest Software Inc. reported that itself in conglomerate with its Toad for Oracle offering assisted in enabling Florida Keys Community College maintain its SunGard Banner ERP system. The system delivers a variety of services from student registration and scheduling to financial aid. Toad’s cloud database capabilities were highlighted earlier this week as well. The school has used Toad to improve the productivity [...]
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HP Chosen as Prime Contractor for VA T4 Contract; Dennis Stolkey Comments
October 31, 2011 No CommentHP Enterprise Services has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department in the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology program. The VA T4 is multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, worth up to $12 billion under which HP says it will compete for task orders to provide advanced technology solutions. The five-year [...]
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The Executive Affairs Authority in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has chosen VCE’s Vblock Infrastructure Platform to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and transitioning to private cloud infrastructures. The contract is the first Vblock Infrastructure deployment in the UAE, involving [...]
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In selecting a platform for IT modernization and reorganization, SAP has chosen VMware’s cloud infrastructure and management platform to support business demand. SAP’s IT group already uses VMware solutions as an underlying virtualization technology and infrastructure as a service architecture, which will allow SAP’s internal customers to be more responsive and efficient at a controlled cost, VMware said. [...]
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Symantec’s 2011 Threat Management Survey revealed that most enterprises are not confident in their security posture and that staffing is a major issue limiting IT security’s effectiveness. The goal of the survey was to determine the concerns IT security organizations face. Fifty-seven percent of respondents to the survey said they lack confidence in their IT [...]
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