A new International Data Corp. report says the global market for integrated infrastructure systems and integrated platforms reached $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of this year. IDC said Thursday the market posted nearly 45 percent increase in storage capacity shipments during the quarter compared with the same quarter of the previous year. […] More

Kelly Collins has served as president of Digital Reasoning‘s public sector business since February and is responsible for the company’s programs with government agencies, policymakers and partners. She has more than 30 years of experience and held leadership roles at companies in the enterprise software and systems market. She previously served as vice president for the […] More

Peter Romness heads the cybersecurity solutions division of Cisco‘s U.S. public sector business and is in charge of developing the company’s cyber portfolio for federal, state and local government customers. He brings 30 years of work experience at companies such as AT&T, Hewlett-Packard and Panasonic. Before he joined Cisco in 2010, Romness served as national sales manager […] More

Scott Gaydos, chief technologist of Hewlett-Packard‘s U.S. public sector business, believes federal information technology leaders should explore the potential benefits of shadow IT in driving down costs. Gaydos wrote in a Fedscoop guest piece published Friday that the government needs to adopt a centralized IT governance structure to mitigate risk in shadow IT while reaping its benefits. […] More

Windstream has signed up for Hewlett-Packard’s team of managed service providers — the HP PartnerOne program — in a move to deliver cloud services to clients. Windstream will offer private cloud, backup as a service and replication as a service to small, medium and enterprise clients, Windstream said Tuesday. “Windstream’s IT as-a-Service provides our joint […] More

A TechNavio report released by ReportBuyer predicts that the global data-protection-as-a-service market will climb in value at a 57.03-percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2019. ReportBuyer said Tuesday the growth is due to the greater ease in application development as more vendors offer DPaaS tools such as hypervisors, network virtualization and BYOD-integrated applications. […] More

Hewlett-Packard will develop an e-health information technology platform for the health and family welfare department of Kerala in India as part of efforts to improve patient care at the region’s healthcare facilities, InfotechLead reported Monday. Shilpa Khatri writes that the platform will work to deliver digital healthcare services using mobile applications, analytics, data mining and […] More

Avnet Technology Solutions will now integrate Veeam Software’s platforms with its portfolio of services in the U.S. and Canada following the expansion of a distribution agreement. Avnet said Wednesday Veeam’s software tools are designed to provide disaster recovery, backup and virtualization management support for data centers that enterprises use for managing business operations. Sergio Farache, […] More

Hewlett-Packard will offer CenturyLink’s set of information technology platforms and services to its commercial clients as part of an agreement with the latter company. The HP PartnerOne for Service Provider Program deal allows HP clients to choose, purchase and use CenturyLink’s big data, managed hosting, cloud, storage and colocation offerings to help manage cloud-based data infrastructure, CenturyLink said Thursday. […] More

Hewlett-Packard will sponsor the 35th National Veterans Wheelchair Games conducted by Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Paralyzed Veterans of America said Tuesday nearly 600 veterans are competing in the 2015 games that kicked off on Monday through Friday in Dallas, Texas. HP also sponsors the Kids Day event where children with […] More

David Donatelli, formerly executive vice president and general manager of the enterprise group at Hewlett-Packard, has joined Oracle as EVP of the company’s converged infrastructure division. He will report directly to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and will oversee the firm’s server, tape, networking, storage, engineered systems and hybrid cloud-based hardware platforms, the company said Thursday. Oracle CEO […] More

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services UK has awarded a contract to Envitia to help develop a geospatial intelligence platform for the U.K.’s defense ministry. Envitia said Wednesday the system will be designed to allow the U.K.’s military to search and retrieve geospatial intelligence data from their defense information infrastructure network terminals. Mark Richardson, business development manager at […] More