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  • Oracle-Sponsored Report Points to Enterprise Database as Security Focus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Oracle-Sponsored Report Points to Enterprise Database as Security Focus

    A new Oracle-sponsored report indicates that organizations see needed improvements in enterprise database security as majority of respondents pointed to human error and abuse of access privilege as top concerns. The company said Tuesday an Independent Oracle Users Group survey of 353 database and information technology professionals found that enterprises lack sufficient security controls that prevent, detect and monitor potentially risky user […] More

  • SAP Unveils 3 Cloud-Based Tools for Internet of Things; Bernd Leukert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    SAP Unveils 3 Cloud-Based Tools for Internet of Things; Bernd Leukert Comments

    SAP has launched three new products that work to leverage the computing, analytics and event processing functions of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform to support the Internet of Things. “The Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically improve responsiveness of businesses, reimagine customer experience and open up new opportunities and brand new business models such as […] More

  • Deltek's Ashley Bergander: 2Q to Offer Small Businesses Military Training Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Ashley Bergander: 2Q to Offer Small Businesses Military Training Opportunities

    Deltek‘s Ashley Bergander says that small businesses will see new business opportunities with three upcoming follow-on contracts for U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy training programs. Bergander, a research manager at Deltek, writes in a piece published Sunday in the Washington Post that the Aircrew Training and Rehearsal Support, Counter Narcotics and Global Threats Training Support Services and Weapons and Systems Integration Support […] More

  • Marius Haas: Dell, Deloitte to Expand Market Coverage With Integrated Cloud Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marius Haas: Dell, Deloitte to Expand Market Coverage With Integrated Cloud Tools

    Deloitte and Dell have formed a partnership to deliver products that work to help develop an information technology infrastructure focused on customer experience and drive patient outcomes through automation and healthcare technologies. The companies said Wednesday they will combine Deloitte’s CloudMix and Dell’s cloud, security and Dell One identity access management offerings through the Dell Boomi cloud integration platform. They will […] More

  • Verizon Cloud Platform Secures FedRAMP Authority to Operate; Michael Maiorana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Cloud Platform Secures FedRAMP Authority to Operate; Michael Maiorana Comments

    Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report said Verizon intends to leverage the […] More

  • Software AG Offers Cloud-Based BPA-as-a-Service; Wolfram Jost Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Software AG Offers Cloud-Based BPA-as-a-Service; Wolfram Jost Comments

    Software AG has unveiled a business-process-analysis-as-a-service tool that works to provide process documentation, analysis and optimization functions via private and public cloud to help organizations address emerging business and market needs. The company said Thursday the ARIS Cloud offering is available in basic, advanced and enterprise versions via Amazon Web Services based on the scale of implementation of process improvement efforts. Wolfram […] More

  • Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud

    Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

  • Sri Sundaralingam: immixGroup to Offer Catbird's Cloud Security, Compliance Tools to Gov't Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sri Sundaralingam: immixGroup to Offer Catbird’s Cloud Security, Compliance Tools to Gov’t Clients

    Catbird will integrate its cloud security and compliance technologies with immixGroup‘s public sector offerings as part of a partnership agreement between the companies to address the changing security requirements of emerging IT environments. “We are pleased to partner with immixGroup to assist government agencies in managing the security within their virtual and cloud environments while providing […] More

  • Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed F-35C Jet Lands on Carrier in 1st At-Sea Development Test

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 carrier variant performed an arrested landing on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier Monday as part of an estimated two-week initial at-sea development test of the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter. The Navy said Monday that Cmdr. Tony Wilson, a U.S. Navy test pilot, landed one of two F-35C planes onto the carrier’s flight deck under the DT-I test phase. “With the first traps of […] More

  • Steve Meininger: CH2M Hill, Texas City Extend Partnership to 25 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Meininger: CH2M Hill, Texas City Extend Partnership to 25 Years

    CH2M Hill will continue to provide operations and maintenance services to a sludge wastewater treatment plant and lift station in Stephenville, Texas, following an extension to their contract up to 2021. “This latest contract extension means our relationship with Stephenville will span 25 years,” Steve Meininger, CH2M Hill senior vice president and managing director for operations management services, said Friday. […] More

  • Hughes, Airbus Eye User Mobility With Satellite Terminal; Rick Lober Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes, Airbus Eye User Mobility With Satellite Terminal; Rick Lober Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has partnered with Hughes Network Systems to develop an X-band satellite terminal for a new service that works to provide video, voice and data services for military operations. Hughes said Monday it will integrate its modem and waveform solutions with Airbus’ Skynet military communications satellite system to deliver a lightweight and man-portable terminal for […] More

  • Unisys' Roberto Tavano: Risk Mgmt, Awareness, Partnership to Help Counter Crime-as-a-Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Roberto Tavano: Risk Mgmt, Awareness, Partnership to Help Counter Crime-as-a-Service

    Roberto Tavano of Unisys says that increasing incidents of organized cyber crime and emergence of crime-as-a-service means companies should work further on risk management, collaboration and cyber awareness and education to protect their systems. Tavano – vice president of global security sales for technology, consulting and integration services at Unisys – wrote in a blog post published Thursday that online criminals are now turning to the digital underground to […] More