NTT Communications Corp. has collaborated with its U.S.-based group company Verio to release in the U.S. a suite of public cloud services that were previously available in Japan. The Biz Hosting Cloud (n) cloud services offerings will be available through NTT Com’s U.S. datacenter starting Thursday, NTT Com said Wednesday. The cloud suite features services such […] More

Intelligent systems developer Charles River Analytics has introduced an open-source programming language for developers to create probabilistic models and reasoning algorithms. Figaro 2.0 was developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Probabilistic and Relational Inferences in Dynamic Environments program and is designed to derive conclusions from available evidence, Charles River said Monday. Avi Pfeffer, […] More

Capgemini and Global IDs have partnered to combine their respective financial services and data management software offerings for capital markets clients. Capgemini plans to form Global IDs centers of excellence across its global delivery centers as part of the alliance, Global IDs said Tuesday. Aloke Paskar, capital markets lead at Capgemini, said the partnership aims […] More

CSSI has won prime positions on two portions of the General Services Administration‘s potential 10-year, $60 billion One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business vehicle. The company will be eligible to work in the GSA OASIS SB program’s pools four and six, the company announced Monday. CSSI will offer agencies professional services related to logistics, […] More

Charles “Chuck” Hicks serves as the senior vice president of finance and business operations at ASRC Federal, where he oversees finance, government accounting and compliance, program control and pricing. The U.S. Navy veteran has spent more than 20 years in finance and operations and served as SVP and chief financial officer at USIS prior to […] More

VMware and Carpathia will collaborate to provide federal agencies a hybrid cloud computing service as both companies seek to acquire an authority-to-operate provision under the governmentwide FedRAMP program. The VMware vCloud Government Service will be designed to run legacy and new applications in order to help agencies extend their data centers into a cloud computing environment that holds […] More

SAP has moved to grow its mobile services market presence in the Middle East and North Africa region by signing agreements with telecommunications companies STC and Etisalat for enterprise mobility and network life-cycle management tools, Gulf Business reported Monday. Aarti Nagraj writes SAP announced the deals with Saudi Arabia-based STC and United Arab Emirates-based Etisalat at […] More

Ed Davis, formerly commissioner of Boston’s police department, has joined the advisory board of Connecticut-based communications and multimedia company Mutualink. Davis led the department and surrounding law enforcement agencies through their response to the Boston Marathon bombing and led the city’s police for seven years, Mutualink announced Monday. The 35-year law enforcement veteran also worked to help the city […] More

Hughes Network Systems has received a potential four-and-a-half year task order to provide broadband communications platforms and services for multi-agency government distance education initiatives. The company will design, install and maintain a satellite-based audio and video system for a government education and training network comprising of defense, executive branch and federal judiciary agencies, Hughes said […] More

BAE Systems will offer a big data storage system originally developed for government and military agencies to commercial customers. TeraStar is built to store large amounts of data gathered from sensors and be compatible with different types of storage media devices, BAE said Monday. “We originally developed the TeraStar data storage system to fit the […] More

A Los Angeles public school district has implemented Microsoft‘s Office 365 cloud computing platform for administrators and faculty members to access, organize and share documents from multiple devices. Microsoft partner SADA Systems worked to help the Los Angeles Unified School District adopt the cloud email system, Microsoft said Thursday. Office 365 includes privacy and security […] More

The C4ISR group of DRS Technologies Inc. has won a supplier excellence award from Northrop Grumman, which DRS said recognized the sensitive programs support DRS has provided to Northrop’s information systems sector. Winners of the Northrop Grumman supplier excellence award, which also included Harris Corp., were judged based on five factors: schedule, management, technical acumen, […] More