Jim Reinhart, chief operating officer for development and operations at QTS, said the company has added hybrid connectivity to its enterprise cloud offering to give clients more options to fulfill their information technology requirements. “Our strategy for the QTS Enterprise Cloud has always been to make it scalable and cost-efficient for our customers, whose information […] More

The Air Force National Capital Region is undertaking the second phase in the four-phase deployment of the AFNCR Shared Computing Environment with support from prime contractor Lockheed Martin, GCN reported Tuesday. William Jackson writes the SCE program, which provided AFNCR with a unified IT infrastructure and shared enterprise services, is focused on load balancing during the second deployment phase. […] More

Red Hat has launched the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, the latest enterprise release of the company’s cloud platform offering that uses the OpenStack Icehouse open source technology. The company said Tuesday the platform comes with a three-year support life cycle from its global support services team and partner ecosystem and works to integrate with VMware infrastructure for networking, storage, management […] More

CSC Vice President Jim Kaskade said the company has updated its big data platform as a service offering to include new security and compliance features for “quick, efficient and confident” deployment in various types of datacenters and cloud architectures. The open source solution provides analytics tools that clients can use with the ServiceMesh Agility Platform cloud […] More

Dell has introduced a range of server products and service offerings intended to help enterprise customers manage computing workloads and infrastructures that run SAP HANA-based applications. SAP has certified Dell’s PowerEdge rack servers to integrate with the HANA in-memory database and also approved Dell’s Compellent platform as a data storage system for HANA, Dell said […] More

ExecutiveBiz: Tell us a little bit about BRTRC’s recent acquisition and how it’s indicative of where the company is heading Terri Thomas: It is a very exciting time for us at BRTRC. SecureForce is our first acquisition. It’s a company that we’ve been working with for two years. We’ve teamed with them repeatedly in the […] More

FireEye has updated a report that outlines techniques some malware authors use to evade a network infrastructure’s traditional defenses. The latest release of “Hot Knives Through Butter: Evading File-Based Sandboxes” adds four new stealth and evasion practices to the 11 already included in the August 2013 list, FireEye said Tuesday. The report says sandboxes isolate, […] More

EMC Corp. has released a new portfolio of data storage applications designed to help enterprises manage archiving, recovery and security functions. The Data Protection Suite is built to support physical, virtual and cloud computing systems and helps customers shift toward a software-defined storage model, EMC said Thursday. According to the company, the offerings work to […] More

Lockheed Martin will collaborate with CyberPoint International to develop new products intended to protect government and business infrastructures from advanced persistent threats. CyberPoint International has signed up for the Lockheed-led Cyber Security Alliance with the aim of offering integrated enterprise security tools, Lockheed said Tuesday. The consortium was formed to utilize Lockheed’s cyber innovation and […] More

An international business school based in Madrid, Spain has chosen to deploy a unified server platform built Cisco in order to update the school’s data processing center. IE Business School purchased the Cisco Unified Computing System in order to have a centralized computing, network, storage and virtualization setup for the data processing center, Cisco announced […] More

Modernizing legacy systems is one of the top priorities in federal information technology for addressing adaptability and efficiency, Ann Braley-Smith writes in a piece posted on Dell’s blog Monday. According to Braley-Smith, agencies stand to benefit from technology upgrades by converting information silos into open data and addressing redundancy issues. The report cited studies that support […] More

Global Technology Resources Inc. sought to emphasize the value of using technology to address cybersecurity issues in enterprises at the company’s annual sales kickoff meeting. The GTRI event featured keynote speakers Matthew Eversmann, a two-decade military veteran, and Luis Benitez, a leadership development consultant, according to a Jan 28 blog post by GTRI Solutions Architect […] More