A Forrester Consulting study says that three organizations have achieved a lower cost of technology ownership from implementing an Oracle database software in conjunction with a Verizon cloud platform. George Koroneos, an online media manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote Thursday the Verizon-commissioned research sought to analyze how subscription-based licensing of Oracle Database on Verizon Cloud […] More

Deloitte has become the latest company to join the Industrial Internet Consortium, a group dedicated to push the possibilities the Internet of Things can bring to the market sector. The company said Thursday that it aims to bring value to members and industry with unique insights on how to tap IoT technologies to innovate, create savings […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has been gradually switching from physical information systems to a software-based virtual infrastructure, VMware executive Bill Rowan writes in a Defense Systems opinion piece. Rowan, vice president of VMware’s DoD team, says the shift is driven by the current fiscal environment as well as federal data center consolidation and desktop virtualization initiatives. “Today, […] More

Spero Energy Inc., announced yesterday it has received a six-month $150,000 SBIR Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation. The technology is based on Purdue University intellectual property, said Spero. Basudeb Saha, chief technology officer, said the grant will aid in Spero Energy’s commercialization of its conversion technology. “We will use the funding to develop […] More

Jason Small, global digital manager for corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, says that understanding the strategic value of information technology is essential when making an IT request. Enterprise leaders should bring IT early into planning discussions and highlight the return on investment for technology, Small wrote in an article published Thursday. He believes that […] More

DLT Solutions has joined CloudBees‘ partner ecosystem to leverage government contract vehicle positions and bring CloudBees’ Jenkins Enterprise and continuous delivery platform to the federal, state and local government markets. “We have seen a growing need for continuous integration in government to enable agencies to accelerate cost-effective application development and delivery,” Jim Propps, director of enterprise platform sales at DLT, said […] More

IBM is donating $100 million in big data and analytics software and establishing programs at 100 universities in China as part of the IBM U-100 project to foster a future workforce skilled in big data and analytics. The company said Tuesday that U-100 is an extension of the existing partnership between the company and China’s education ministry and aims to train 40,000 […] More

NASA used an ATK-built rocket motor and test vehicle for an exercise the agency carried out to evaluate a vehicle the agency wants to use for landing payloads on Mars. The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii carried the vehicle from the test range into the atmosphere, ignited the ATK STAR […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

Deloitte has moved to expand its ConvergeHEALTH analytics consortium with the addition of Regenstrief Institute, an informatics and healthcare research organization. Regenstrief will join Intermountain Healthcare and Moffitt Cancer Center/M2Gen within the ConvergeHEALTH network, Deloitte said Tuesday. “We are excited to have the Regenstrief Institute join our consortium with Intermountain and M2Gen. Adding Regenstrief to […] More

IBM has established new data centers that will offer a SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service platform designed to help federal clients manage and secure their workloads on premise or in the cloud. The SoftLayer cloud facilities are built to host 30,000 servers and share a private computer network connectivity of up to 2,000 gigabytes per second, IBM said […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has partnered with SAP to develop a new suite of information technology offerings designed to help businesses migrate IT processes into the cloud with the HANA computing technology. CSC plans to initially offer its HANA-ready cloud platforms to customers in the social service, financial, engineering and construction sectors, CSC said Thursday. The […] More