Government Technology

Capgemini was selected for two awards at the he Teradata EPIC Awards 2013 event, recognizing Capgemini’s work with customers in the area of business intelligence. The Enterprise Intelligence and Operational Excellence Awards went to Capgemini, representing the company’s fifth straight year of winning awards from Teradata, Capgemini announced Wednesday. Teradata awards the EIA to partners […] More

A high-speed satellite Internet service provided Hughes Network Systems was selected as a winner at the Consumer World Awards, an annual consumer industry awards program. The HughesNet Gen4 High-Speed Satellite Internet Service won the award for its work to deliver up to 15 Mbps of internet access and a greater download capacity, Hughes announced Monday. Close to […] More

A health monitoring application that  Splunk developed for VMware developed was selected for the editor’s choice award in the server virtualization category of Virtualization Review’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards. The Splunk App for VMware is designed to correlate VMware data with data from other technologies and insights on performance, capacity and security analytics, Splunk announced Monday. “In the information […] More

Microsoft has released a white paper that proposes privacy and security best practices for corporate employees who use their own mobile devices in the workplace. The company says organizations should develop policies to stop botnets and spyware from entering their enterprise information technology networks. A global survey by Gartner Research found 88 percent of executives said […] More

VMware wants university researchers to participate in the company’s fourth annual data center automation competition with a prize of a $150,000 grant up for grabs, Cloud Pro reported Friday.  Jane McCallion writes that researchers for the 2014 Academic Research Awards are being asked to explore matters related to scalable machine learning, algorithms, design patterns, data intensive […] More

The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Education plans to have 25 testing centers for Microsoft‘s online information technology program before the end of the academic year, Khaleej Times reported Thursday. Marwan Al Sawaleh, undersecretary for MoE, told the publication the ministry plans to add 11 more Microsoft IT Academy centers in order to help students pursue […] More

A team of explorers marooned on board a vessel off the Antarctic coast is using Inmarsat satellite technology to communicate with the outside world. The researchers, students and reporters were on their way home from the month-long Australasian Antarctic Expedition when the vessel got stuck in a thick ice cluster on Dec. 24, Inmarsat said Tuesday. Nardev Choudhary, […] More

A new study from QuinStreet Enterprise indicates that enterprise customers continue to invest in data centers due to uptime, availability and security, Datamation reported Thursday. Paul Shread writes the “2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation — Where Is Your Enterprise?” report stated 88 percent of 321 information technology professionals spend on data centers. Amazon, Dell […] More

A Dice.com survey says 73 percent out of 900 responding hiring managers and recruiters plan to hire more technology professionals in the first half of 2014, NextGov reported Thursday. Brittany Ballenstedt writes that that 24 percent of respondents predict tech hiring in the first half of the year will be “substantial,” up from the 19 percent […] More

SAP and a United Arab Emirates-based university will collaborate to educate students on business software applications through problem-solving exercises, technology demonstrations and research activities, The Gulf Today reported Tuesday. Ajman University for Science and Technology joined an SAP alliance program designed to give academic institutions access to the company’s enterprise-grade software portfolio for training purposes, […] More