The shipping and distribution industry is increasingly turning to cloud computing for use in business operations, Verizon‘s Maria Montenegro wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. Montenegro, a communications manager at the company, said one of the drivers of cloud adoption in the industry is is the need for IT and software applications to manage […] More

Verizon Enterprise Solutions recommends that companies partner with a managed security service provider to defend their networks against cyberattacks as they turn to technologies such as mobility, big data and cloud. Janet Brumfield, the company’s director of corporate communications, said Tuesday that hybrid cybersecurity-management model is seen as the solution to meet these c0mpanies’ needs. Such needs involve “more sophisticated […] More

Sonya Cork, Verizon Enterprise Solutions vice president of public sector markets, has been appointed to the TechAmerica public sector board of directors, TechAmerica said Wednesday. The public sector board focuses on issues that are of the most importance to federal and state government contractors, according to TechAmerica. “Sonya brings an extensive background in the world of government […] More

Verizon and RSA have reached an agreement for Verizon Enterprise Solutions to help EMC Corp. subsidiary run its managed security partner program. Verizon’s clients will have access to new cyber defense technologies such as big data security analytics, critical incident response and risk management under the partnership, Verizon said Monday. Eddie Schwartz, vice president of global […] More

Verizon has been leveraging its enterprise cloud platform to bring connected solutions to customers, said Anne Plese of the infrastructure and cloud solutions team at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. According to Plese’s Terremark blog post, system developers use Enterprise Cloud Verizon as a base to build machine-to-machine tools specific to their applications, generating information that helps decision […] More

Verizon‘s enterprise services arm will offer its cloud computing customers access to the SAP HANA platform. SAP intends to deploy its cloud platform to customers through Verizon’s ecosystem that comprises of the eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud environments, Verizon said Wednesday. John Harrobin, chief marketing officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company […] More

Dr. Peter Tippett, chief medical officer and vice president at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, recently spoke with HIT Consultant Media about the company’s approach to health information technology compliance in an interview published Thursday. Tippett told interviewer Lois Drapin at the 2013 mHealth Summit that Verizon uses digital signing and two-factor identification platforms in order to comply […] More

Chris Drumgoole, former chief information officer of General Electric, has joined DXC Technology as executive vice president and CIO to lead its global information technology operations.

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Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council will auction off regional and industry c-level executives in a fundraising event scheduled on Feb. 4. Attendees will bid electronically for a chance with c-level executives within 12 months and gain insights, forge business connections and learn about future plans of various companies, the NVTC said. The NVTC CXO Auction event […] More

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released the findings of a study to evaluate the potential relationship between cloud computing usage and how businesses have marked up their agility and competitiveness. Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of 527 HBR readers from large and mid-size organizations worldwide in order to find out the views of businesses and government organizations […] More

Rob Warren, former chief growth officer for enterprise information technology, federal civilian solutions at CACI International, was appointed vice president of capture at ECS. He is responsible for leading a team of capture managers tasked to pursue multimillion business opportunities with government customers. More