Saudi Arabia’s education ministry has selected IBM and Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) to look at how the country’s school system can strengthen its information security by using the companies’ assessment tools. Mohamed Abdelhak, country general manager for IBM Saudi Arabia, said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia sought to take a “proactive approach” against increasing security threats and targeted attacks worldwide. […] More

Deltek CEO Mike Corkery emphasized the firm’s global expansion plans in the company’s announcement today that Patrick Smith has elevated to senior vice president of Deltek’s global marketing team. Corkery said that the company will look to Smith’s experience prior to joining the firm and as its most recent vice president of marketing and communications […] More

Oracle has kicked off a program to help enterprise clients migrate their on-premise human capital management and customer relationship management applications to cloud-based HCM and CRM apps. The Customer 2 Cloud program is open to customers using Oracle’s Siebel, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software products, Oracle said Wednesday. “Despite clear and significant […] More

IBM has moved to help customers further extend their mobile technology programs by opening new mobile development collaboration studios worldwide. The company aims to help developers build and deliver mobile apps while responding to enterprise risks through the MobileFirst program, IBM said Tuesday. Marie Wieck, general manager of MobileFirst, said IBM wants to help clients grow their businesses […] More

A Helsinki, Finland-based public bus company has adapted a Microsoft business intelligence platform to help monitor traffic data, gas usage and driver performance. Helsingin Bussiliikenne Oy uses Power BI for Office 365 alongside a CGI-built data warehouse system and Microsoft’s SQL Server, SharePoint, Office and Power Mapplatforms, Microsoft said Monday. The city-owned bus operator competes with private operators to serve transportation routes and cannot raise fares […] More

Bill Jaffe co-founded TAPE in 2003 and serves as executive vice president and general manager at the Alexandria, Va.-based SDVOSB – Service-Disabled, Veteran–Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business. Among his many leadership responsibilities, Jaffe manages TAPE’s corporate development, M&A and IDIQ activities. TAPE specializes in systems engineering and provides technological; program and management support; and training solutions […] More

Red Hat will announce the winner of the open source technology company’s Innovator of the Year award at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. This is the eighth year of the awards and five nominees were selected across different categories through online voting, Red Hat announced Monday. Categories for the awards include infrastructure; […] More

Microsoft and Xamarin have partnered to establish a technology consortium that aims to help developers build computing applications based on Microsoft’s .NET programming framework. The .NET Foundation offers open source developers access to Microsoft’s portfolio of Roslyn and ASP.NET application programming interfaces, Xamarin said Thursday. Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and chief technology officer of Xamarin, […] More

Parsons has been awarded the 2013 Secretarial Honor Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for the company’s work on the cleanup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. The company won the award for its development of a next generation solvent technology for the deployment of a […] More

Verizon Terremark has joined a foundation that works to help accelerate the growth of Linux and collaborative development in the technology industry. Verizon joins The Linux Foundation as a gold member to help further the organization’s work on open cloud and virtualization technologies, the foundation announced Wednesday. “Linux, open cloud and open virtualization technologies support […] More

AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel have launched a nonprofit group in an effort to accelerate industry-wide adoption of technology for managing big data and machine-to-machine communications. The Industrial Internet Consortium will work to develop best practices, interoperability standards and reference architectures to help enterprises adopt systems that can link machines, devices and people, […] More

James Cook, MITRE Corp. vice president and director of the Center for Enterprise Modernization, has been named to Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 list, the company said Wednesday. Cook first appeared on the list in 2007 for his work with the Internal Revenue Service. The list of award winners is based on employees that “have gone […] More