The Concurrent Technologies Corp. Foundation has awarded cash prizes to the winners of the annual Great Americans Day Essay Contest for students around the Johnstown, Pennsylvania. CTC said Tuesday the competition received more than two dozen essays about U.S. cowboy and actor Will Rogers, who was highlighted during the University of Pittsburgh’s Great Americans Day […] More

Maritime Way Scientific has received funding from Lockheed Martin Canada Mission Systems & Training to develop an underwater warfare system dubbed SPARTA. The Sonar Performance-Acoustic Research-Tactical Analysis system aims to assist naval forces to detect enemy threats by determining underwater environment through ocean acoustic modelling technology, Maritime Way said Wednesday. Martin Taillefer, Maritime Way president […] More

Joe Ayers leads Hewlett-Packard‘s federal enterprise group as its vice president and general manager and leads a team that provides technology and consulting services to federal agencies. Ayers, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, led Dell’s business for two years before he joined HP and is also a former U.S. Army aviation […] More

A TechNavio report predicts a 5.7 percent average growth for the worldwide health information technology market on a year-over-year basis through 2018. The research firm identified CareFusion, Cerner, Dell, McKesson and Philips Healthcare as among the key vendors in the sector, Reports and Intelligence said Thursday. The report indicates that government and private organizations have […] More

International Data Corp. has published a report that suggests a framework for information technology companies and professionals to drive service innovation with “third platform” computing technologies. IDC predicts third platform IT-as-a-service will be key for approximately 65 percent of industry’s global competitive strategies by 2016, the market intelligence firm said Wednesday. The platform is becoming […] More

Research and Markets predicts that the global mobile data protection market will continue to experience fast-paced growth to reach a market value of $3.54 billion in five years at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent from 2014 to 2019. The firm said Friday that the risk of data loss and theft due to the growing adoption of bring-your-own-device practices at businesses as […] More

Research and Markets has projected a 4.62 compound annual growth rate for the global mega data center market from 2014 to 2018. Cloud computing technology will be among the primary growth drivers in the large enterprise data hubs industry, the research firm said Thursday. Analysts also see a trend toward interconnection between big data centers […] More

Jeff Lush serves as chief technologist for HP‘s federal civilian segment, where he is responsible for leveraging technologies within HP and understanding the needs of customers. Lush most recently served as a chief technology officer at Dell and was also executive chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In his conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Lush […] More

Red Hat has rolled out a consulting service aimed at helping government customers to implement and secure cloud-based information technology systems. The Red Hat Cloud for Government program is designed to offer tools and methods for agencies to manage cloud infrastructure and computing services in their data centers, the company said Monday. “Budget-strapped agencies want […] More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

Microsoft has developed three new analytics platforms for organizations to capture and manage large amounts of machine- and human-generated data, Silicon Angle reported Monday. Saroj Kar writes that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the Azure Intelligent Systems Service, SQL Server 2014 and Analytics Platform System products last week at a customer event in San Francisco. […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More