Mark Garrett, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Adobe, has joined Cisco‘s board of directors, bringing with him more than 30 years of experience in financial management in technology. The networking hardware firm said Thursday it has selected 11 other executives to join its board of directors prior to appointing Garrett. “Mark has […] More

A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent a total of $28.3 million on cloud platforms and services from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2017 through the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer IT Commodities and Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. NIH spent $18.8 million on cloud platforms over the past three fiscal years, followed by the National […] More

Orbital ATK carried out a live-fire demonstration of its MK44 Bushmaster Chain Gun at the firm’s Bushmaster User Conference held at Big Sandy Range in Arizona. The weapon system mounted on a General Dynamics-built light armored vehicle and Kongsberg-made protector turret fired 30mm and 40mm rounds against steel panel, adobe and concrete block targets during the […] More

ConnectSolutions has achieved Service Organization Control 2 Type II certification for its internal data security controls and practices after a services and systems evaluation by auditing company Armanino. SOC-II works to validate the compliance of the company’s commercial cloud with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Trust Services Principles and Criteria for policies, communications, procedures […] More

A new Trend Micro report lists cybersecurity predictions in 2017 that will influence the movement of the threat landscape such as a rise in ransomware and email compromise attacks. The report titled “The Next Tier” predicts the number of new ransomware families will grow by 25 percent in 2017 which translates to approximately 15 new families every month, Trend […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 25.6 percent for the global cloud computing in education market over the next five years. The 151-page report estimates that revenue for education-related cloud computing products and services will reach $25.36 billion by 2021 from $8.13 billion in 2016, the RnR Market Research said Oct. 6. Public cloud deployment type is projected […] More

Microsoft has introduced new cloud, security and intelligence platforms and services designed to help information technology professionals address network security threats and meet their organizations’ digital transformation objectives. The company said Monday it will launch on Oct. 1 its Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 and Secure Productive Enterprise offerings that work against security threats. Microsoft’s […] More

Jenna Hafey, sales manager of the Adobe team at Carahsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that she believes public sector organizations should incorporate security into their content creation, collaboration and consumption processes. “Data-centric security should be the default approach in the public sector, especially to protect personally identifiable or classified data that will inevitably be […] More

Phacil has been awarded a five-year, $17.4 million contract to provide information assurance, networking and maintenance services to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company will perform enterprise service desk, connectivity services, asset management, enterprise directory, Adobe Experience Manager support, cloud, unified communications and mobility services for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, Phacil said Wednesday. Bill […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, has received FedScoop’s Industry Leadership award in recognition of his work in the field of federal information technology, FedScoop reported Friday. FedScoop founder and CEO Goldy Kamali presented the awards in nine categories to 50 industry and government leaders in the federal IT sector during an awards ceremony held Thursday at […] More

Motorola Solutions has introduced an integrated device offering that combines body-worn video camera, radio speaker and microphone designed for law enforcement requirements. The Si500 and Si300 video speaker microphone functions hand in hand with the cloud-based CommandCentral Vault storage service, Motorola said Tuesday. Bruce Brda, executive vice president of systems and products for Motorola Solutions, […] More

An ICF International business unit has received the 2014 Vendor of the Year for Innovation award from Amway for its work in developing the Amway MyBiz website and Amway Business Owners applications. ICF said Tuesday Amway awarded ICF Interactive the 2015 CIO Award earlier this year for its contributions in the MyBiz launch. The company utilized an agile development process, collaboration and […] More