Tim Conway serves as president of the public sector at NTT DATA, where he oversees the company’s business in the U.S. that works with agencies at the federal, state and local government levels. He served as EVP of the public sector business at Keane prior to that company’s acquisition by NTT DATA in 2011. His 23-year public sector career […] More

J.D. Crouch, CEO of QinetiQ North America prior to The SI Organization‘s acquisition of QNA’s services business, has joined the nonprofit United Service Organizations as president and CEO. “He comes to the USO with a record of government service, leadership and innovation, but most important of all, he has a deep and abiding passion for our men and […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the healthcare analytics market to achieve a 25 percent compound annual growth rate through 2019, HealthITAnalytics reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes regulatory mandates, ongoing health information technology adoption, predictive analytics and clinical support requirements of healthcare organizations will drive the market. The report also lists […] More

John Kennedy, formerly vice president of global business services at IBM, has joined Xerox Corp. as chief marketing officer and corporate VP. He most recently led IBM’s marketing and demand generation within the company’s business services division, Xerox said Monday. “John brings a global view and a proven track record of success changing brand perception […] More

Unisys will provide the state of Pennsylvania with an on-demand, cloud-based computing environment that will work to unify seven data centers under a seven-year, $681 million contract. The company said Monday the contract covers managed hosting services, self-provisioning and capacity on demand for computing resources based on business needs, technical services and project, contract and facilities management. IBM and Deloitte […] More

RTKL professionals are exploring how Internet-connected systems can help individuals, workplaces, facilities and communities, Michael Colburn of RTKL’s Technology Design Studio wrote on a blog published Thursday. Their goal is to develop methods for linking systems used in daily life to create “smarter” and responsive environments as well as to improve the user experience, according […] More

Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack have joined Google’s open source docker management community. The companies will contribute code to the Kubernetes container management technology and maintain the project as an open container management framework for private, public and hybrid cloud applications, Google said Thursday. Google says the Kubernetes community aims to help […] More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

Mark Sopp, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Leidos (previously named Science Applications International Corp.) since 2005, manages the accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations and other financial activities at the company. He helped carry out SAIC’s separation into two publicly traded firms in 2013: Leidos, which works in the national security, engineering and commercial health markets. The company now […] More

Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a new cloud encryption tool for customers to protect sensitive data, Infotech Lead reported Thursday. HP designed the Atalla cloud encryption system to secure data residing in the cloud and on enterprise premises such as emails, payment data and electronic health records, according to the report. Financial institutions, retailers, energy firms, […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a $5 million renewal of its deal providing mainframe services to IP Australia. The agreement reiterates CSC administering well-coordinated service, providing an IBM z114 infrastructure for mainframe data processing with full use of their equipment, personnel and software. “This is a new mainframe platform we put in 12 months ago under our […] More

Hewlett-Packard announced the introduction of two supercomputer servers that will enable them to compete with IBM and Cray in the high-end of the market, CDR Info reported yesterday. The two new systems, HP Apollo 6000 and HP Apollo 8000, are utilizing high-performance computing technology that allows HP to create technology breakthroughs and expand the tech […] More