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A new KPMG International report has found a rising trend in global mergers and acquisitions driven by the increase in M&A deals among high-growth market acquirers and targets for two semesters in a row from December 2013 to December 2014. KPMG said Tuesday the High Growth Markets International Acquisition Tracker found an 11 percent increase […] More
The New Zealand Ministry of Health has signed a five-year deal to implement IBM’s cloud platform to manage a network of health information technology systems. IBM said Tuesday the country’s Ministry of Health will use IBM Cloud Managed Infrastructure Services for New Zealand Government program to run the National Health Payment System and the National […] More
A subsidiary of Cubic Corp. has expanded the use of its passenger information technology in the Australian northeastern state of Queensland to enable more commuters to monitor bus and ferry schedules via their mobile devices and transport information displays. Cubic Transportation Systems and Jackie Trad, Queensland deputy premier and minister for transport, introduced the NextBus system […] More
A new report by International Data Corp. states that investments in notebook computers and corporate networks are likely to spur U.S. higher education organizations to spend about $6.6 billion on information technology this year. IDC said Monday the “Pivot Table: U.S. Education IT Spending Guide†forecasts K-12 schools to post $4.7 billion in IT spending this […] More
Vion Corp. has introduced a preconfigured tool designed to help commercial enterprises, government agencies and military branches process, analyze, deploy and secure big data workloads in short amounts of time. The company said Tuesday its DataAdapt Big Data Analytical Platform is equipped with DataAdapt S1000 Rapid Deploy and DataAdapt S2000 CyberSecure programs that work to secure […] More
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Array Information Technology to upgrade the data systems that back the supply chain platform the military branch uses to support its aerial combat missions. The company said Tuesday it will work with NTT Data, PracTrans and TSRI to make enhancements to the Air Force Integrated Logistics System-Supply, which delivers mission-related equipment for the Air National […] More
CGI will continue to provide information technology services for Louisiana’s Road Home and other disaster relief initiatives following the renewal of its contract with the state’s Office of Technology Services division of administration. Road Home is a housing recovery effort run by the office of community development disaster recovery unit that offers financial aid to property owners affected […] More
Four Points Technology has tapped Dell Software to provide information technology tools and technical support services for federal agencies as part of its supply service contract with the General Services Administration. With Dell as its partner, the award will allow the Virginia-based service-disabled veteran-owned small business to cater to its government clients “from the end […] More
Cray has installed a petaflop supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science Supercomputing Education and Research Center in Bangalore to aid SERC research initiatives focused on high-performance computing. The company said Monday the Cray XC40 supercomputer, dubbed SahasraT, is equipped with Intel Xeon processors, Dragonfly topology, Aries interconnect technology, DataWarp optional platforms, cooling systems and NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit accelerators. […] More
IBM has added its own services to its Bluemix cloud development tool to help developers to quickly build, manage and deploy cloud applications for Internet of Things, mobile and supply chain environments. The Bluemix API Management service could help facilitate sharing and implementation of large-scale application programming interfaces, while the IBM MobileFirst Platform service is […] More
LinQuest has secured a five-year, $42 million task order to provide consulting, systems engineering, intelligence gathering and technical acquisition services for the space situational awareness and advanced systems units of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Superiority Systems Directorate. The company will also perform baseline management, improvement planning, testing and assessment work for the military branch […] More
IBM has introduced a line of Power System servers and a range of storage systems designed to help clients facilitate processing of large-scale data in hybrid cloud settings. IBM Power System E850 can manage 4-terabyte databases, while IBM PurePower System can run with OpenStack open-source cloud computing software and has virtualization hypervisor with no record […] More
