Google Public Sector has chosen World Wide Technology to operate its new sovereign cloud platforms, Jan Niemiec, GPS managing director of national security, announced Friday. GPS entered into a partnership to make WWT the first managed provider of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted, which will serve federal agencies needing to manage their infrastructure even without internet connection.

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David Watts, chief digital adviser for the public sector at World Wide Technology, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that government agencies should implement a data-driven culture and leverage data analytics to accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

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World Wide Technology has been granted a Titanium Black partner designation under Dell Technologies' federal partner program for supporting customer agencies to advance digital transformation goals.

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Amazon Web Services has granted World Wide Technology a Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency designation recognizing the latter's knowledge and capacity to deliver technologies to help clients prepare and respond to man-made and natural disasters and emergencies.

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An industry team led by HII‘s mission technologies division has developed cyber threat hunting kit designed to defend government networks against potential cyber attacks. SABERHUNT is a modular technology that works to search through traditional or cloud-based networks for undetected malicious activities, HII said Monday. The kits maintain a global ecosystem that provides remote troubleshooting […] More

Axellio has secured a $39.5 million contract from the U.S. Army for a mobile, disconnected packet capture system designed to help the service branch monitor, detect and analyze security threats across its Garrison networks. The PacketXpress network intelligence system has been integrated into the Army’s Garrison Defensive Cyberspace Operations Platform to capture, store and distribute […] More

Amazon Web Services has partnered with multiple technology providers for a new program that aims to help customers deploy security, networking and storage platforms that are integrated with the cloud company's managed service offering.

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Gigamon has secured a Level 2 FIPS 140-2 validation status from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for an inline decryption technology based on transport layer security and secure sockets layer protocols.

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Red Hat has named Carahsoft Technology as its distribution partner of the year award in the public sector category for the latter's performance in helping market open source software products across the North American government sector.

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Thirty-one companies have founded an organization that aims to develop policies that will accelerate the adoption of interoperable radio access network offerings.

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Courtney Conroy, formerly business development manager for system integrator programs at VMware, has been appointed healthcare director at Three Wire Systems.

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World Wide Technology has received recognition from NetApp for work as a value-added reseller of the latter company’s products to the Defense Department. NetApp selected WWT for the “Top DoD VAR Partner of the Year” award based on total revenue earned over the past four fiscal quarters, WWT said Tuesday. Robert Stein, vice president of NetApp’s public sector business, said the company […] More