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  • Airbus to Build Ocean Topography Measurement Satellite for ESA; Francois Auque Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Build Ocean Topography Measurement Satellite for ESA; Francois Auque Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has been selected to develop a satellite system for ocean surface topography measurements under a contract with the European Space Agency. The Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 satellite will work to measure the distance between the ocean surface and the satellite, and map the global ocean topography every 10 days, Airbus said Friday. The satellite will orbit […] More

  • Praescient's James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    Praescient’s James Spencer: Data Analyst-Engineer Coordination Needed to Derive Insights

    James Spencer, analyst consultant at Praescient, believes coordination between the data analyst and data engineer is key in work to extract insights from big data. “The problem as I see it is that many enterprises deal with analysis and engineering as two separate entities that don’t really talk to each other,” Spencer said Friday. He said the data scientists […] More

  • CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Lands DHS Task Order for Cyber Services to Civilian Agencies

    CenturyLink will continue to deliver cybersecurity services to U.S. federal civilian agencies under a one-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security‘s office of cybersecurity and communications. The company said Monday the task order is part of a four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cybersecurity services that CenturyLink won in March 2013. DHS awarded the order under its EINSTEIN program, which aims to help agencies […] More

  • Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nubity Joins IBM Cloud Program; Rita Radi Comments

    Nubity has joined IBM‘s cloud entrepreneur program in a move to expand Nubity’s cloud services worldwide. The Mexico City-based startup company partners with IBM’s SoftLayer Catalyst program to access an open cloud infrastructure, executive mentorship and an ecosystem of customers, IBM said Friday. “Through a comprehensive mix of consulting, a robust ecosystem and scalable global cloud infrastructure, Nubity is helping its clients […] More

  • IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Rolls Out Beta Version of Watson Analytics

    IBM has released a beta version of the Watson Analytics cognitive service for business clients. IBM Watson is now available to customers as a cloud-based free premium service via desktop computers and mobile devices, IBM said Thursday. Business users will have access to the Watson Analytics community to share news, best practices, technical support and training services. The cognitive system is designed to […] More

  • Lockheed's Horace Blackman: 'Biggest Opportunities' Lie in Federal Health IT Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Horace Blackman: ‘Biggest Opportunities’ Lie in Federal Health IT Space

    Horace Blackman, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of health and life sciences, attributes new business growth opportunities to the federal health information technology market, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Jay Hancock writes Lockheed Martin’s business with the Department of Health and Human Services has more than doubled to $300 million annually since 2006. “The biggest opportunities I would point to are efforts associated […] More

  • Dave Dunning: Fluor- CNNC Team to Pursue Nuclear, Renewable Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Dunning: Fluor- CNNC Team to Pursue Nuclear, Renewable Markets

    Fluor Corp. and China National Nuclear Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue nuclear and renewable energy business opportunities in Europe and China. CNNC and Fluor will collaborate on various civil nuclear-related projects in the U.K., Germany and China, as well as on wind farms and solar power opportunities, Fluor said Thursday. “We are excited to cooperate […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Cloud Services Market Size to Grow 17% Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Cloud Services Market Size to Grow 17% Through 2020

    Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the global cloud services market will reach $555 billion in 2020. The compound annual growth rate is estimated to be 17.6 percent between 2014 and 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. The report contains analyses for formulating market strategies and examines market factors to determine growth trends in various geographies. The report also identifies key application segments […] More

  • Frost and Sullivan: US Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $3.5B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost and Sullivan: US Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $3.5B by 2020

    Frost and Sullivan has released a study that predicts the U.S. healthcare cloud market will reach $3.5 billion by 2020, iHealthBeat reported Friday. Shruthi Parakkal, healthcare research analyst at Frost and Sullivan, cited several results of cloud migration as information technology staff management, reduced upfront costs, operational efficiency, on-demand data access and deployment, according to the report. The report indicates stakeholders are […] More

  • Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market to Reach $43B in Six Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market to Reach $43B in Six Years

    Allied Market Research has released a report that predicts the global internet security market will reach $42.8 billion by 2020. The report attributes the market’s growth to cloud-based business operations, growing online financial transactions and rise in Internet usage, among other factors. Allied Market Research says the market faces the challenge of pirated software and lack of awareness among consumers. The market […] More

  • Mike Werner: ProphetStor Joins Red Hat OpenStack Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Werner: ProphetStor Joins Red Hat OpenStack Partner Network

    Red Hat and ProphetStor Data Services have partnered to offer ProphetStor’s software-defined storage products and services to their joint customers. ProphetStor joined Red Hat’s OpenStack cloud infrastructure partner network to integrate its Federator services into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, ProphetStor said Monday. “We’re pleased to have ProphetStor join us in the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network,” said […] More

  • Informatica,T-Systems Partner on Data Mgmt Services; Dirk Häußermann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica,T-Systems Partner on Data Mgmt Services; Dirk Häußermann Comments

    Informatica and T-Systems have partnered to combine their cloud integration systems in an effort to help clients manage their data. Customers will be able to consolidate data and applications from public and private clouds as well as those in on-premise platforms using the combined integration and data management service, Informatica said Monday. “The alliance between T Systems and Informatica will deliver […] More