MeriTalk has released a new report that highlights potential challenges to federal cloud adoption and opportunities to increase the migration rate. The study finds that 75 percent and 53 percent of federal cloud users cite data control retention and long-term contracts, respectively, as factors that prevent them from moving other services into the cloud, MeriTalk said […] More

Ingate Systems and eTechHelp have collaborated to help the North Central Texas Council of Governments consolidate the group’s multivendor communication tools with an Office 365 cloud platform. The companies said Monday they worked to integrate Cisco‘s Unified Communications technology and Microsoft‘s Exchange Online hosted messaging service into a single cloud computing environment. ETechHelp used the […] More

Tony Frazier serves as senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, where he oversees the company’s business with the U.S. government and leads product strategy, business development and analytic services delivery functions. He previously led DigitalGlobe’s Insight line of business, which helps organizations apply imagery and other geospatial analysis tools to make decisions. He joined DigitalGlobe as a result of […] More

Susan Pompliano Keys serves as the vice president of sales at Avaya‘s government solutions business and is based in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to this role, Keys oversaw Riverbed Technology‘s business and partner development functions in the federal market. She also ran a government consulting services firm and served in executive roles at Cisco, Lockheed Martin […] More

Research and Markets has released a new prediction that the global Internet security market will achieve an 8.1-percent compound annual growth rate through 2020 to reach a market value of $42.8 billion. The company said Friday this growth is due to an increase in adoption of Internet-based applications in sectors such as financial services and an increase in security threats. In its report, […] More

Research and Markets forecasts that the banking, financial services and institutions (BFSI) security market currently valued at $21.53 billion will reach a market value of $37.35 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent. The firm said Monday that the BFSI security market is segmented into two widely adopted submarkets, the physical security systems […] More

QTS Realty Trust is set to become the latest cloud service provider to reach FedRAMP Ready status with its QTS Federal Cloud infrastructure as a service solution. The company said Tuesday QTS Federal Cloud’s third-party assessment results and other documentation are now under readiness review from the FedRAMP Program Management Office. The FedRAMP Ready category […] More

Globecomm has built and deployed ground-based satellite communications terminals for a European company that is exploring for oil and natural gas in Iraq. The client will use Globecomm’s very small aperture terminal network to help oil exploration crews access data and voice communications in the field, the satcom technology firm said Wednesday. Globecomm says the […] More

Parsons‘ joint venture with Acumen will provide the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District with general engineering services under a new five-year contract. APJV will work with 11 subconsultants and small businesses to provide civil, architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering support for the BART project, Parsons said Wednesday. Todd Wager, Parsons group president, said the company […] More

An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this year’s Q2 compared with the […] More

A consortium comprising of Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Emerson‘s network power business has developed a technical industry standard to help administrators manage, secure and modernize data center systems. Redfish network interface is designed to make different server platforms interoperable and extract insights from big data to improve system monitoring, the companies said Thursday. The […] More

Research and Markets projects a 9.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the global smart grid cybersecurity market through 2018 due to what the firm sees as a growing complexity of cyber attacks on smart grid networks. “The security of the smart grid network is a major issue faced by power utilities because there is a frequent exchange of sensitive information […] More