A new report from Allied Market Research projects the global Internet security market to be worth $42.8 billion by 2020 due to what the firm sees as increasing use Internet-based applications, particularly for online financial transactions. The firm said Thursday the market value for Internet security will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 8.1 percent over the next six years as […] More

Jonathan Becher, formerly chief marketing officer for SAP, will be the company’s inaugural chief digital officer in charge of the newly formed digital business segment. SAP said Monday Becher will help manage the company’s potential expansion into the content and data markets as it centralizes its online service delivery operations onto the SAP Store. “Jonathan will not only be responsible for […] More

Quentin Clark, formerly corporate vice president of Microsoft’s data platform group, has joined SAP SE as chief technology officer. He will report to Bernd Leukert, executive board member of SAP products and innovation, and be responsible for the company’s effort to shape its technology brand, SAP said Thursday. “I am very pleased to have Quentin join SAP,” said Leukert. […] More

A new market report from Cushman & Wakefield says new deals for office leases in the Northern Virginia area during the most recent quarter was the highest recorded since 2011. The two earlier quarters this year were down so much that year to date leasing has dropped a total of 37 percent from this time last year, according to […] More

Mercedes Westcott serves as vice president of public sector at Cloudera and also is a member of the federal advisory board at Threatstream. Prior to Cloudera, Westcott was vice president of public sector at Delphix. Westcott is also a former vice president at HP Enterprise Security Software, which she joined through HP’s acquisition of ArcSight, where she was director of […] More

Amazon Web Services has expanded its instance offerings for an AWS platform designed to help U.S. government customers process sensitive workloads in cloud environment. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, writes in a blog post published Thursday the company added five more EC2 virtual machine types hosted on the AWS GovCloud (US) system. HS1 instance is […] More

Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

Level 3 Communications has opened a data center in Herndon, Virginia, to deliver cloud computing and managed information technology services to government and other enterprise clients. The Herndon facility is the newest addition to the company’s Premier Elite global infrastructure network and features power, cooling, security and connectivity systems, Level 3 said Thursday. Premier Elite […] More

Interactive Intelligence Group has obtained a certification from the Joint Interoperability Test Command for the companys Internet protocol-based communications software offering. BROOKMAN LLC assisted Interactive Intelligence in the certification process for the fourth version of its Customer Interaction Center suite’s sixth update, Interactive Intelligence said Thursday. “CIC’s JITC certification helps government agencies speed sales cycles […] More

Tarik Reyes oversees program delivery, strategy and execution in his role as operating unit director for civil information solutions at Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector. Prior to this role, Reyes held a business development leadership role for Northrop’s civil federal and select defense markets and his career also includes stops at Microsoft, Visalign and Bechtel. In this […] 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

The Air Force National Capital Region is undertaking the second phase in the four-phase deployment of the AFNCR Shared Computing Environment with support from prime contractor Lockheed Martin, GCN reported Tuesday. William Jackson writes the SCE program, which provided AFNCR with a unified IT infrastructure and shared enterprise services, is focused on load balancing during the second deployment phase. […] More