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  • Carpathia’s Colocation Services Receive ISO Certification; Peter Weber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carpathia’s Colocation Services Receive ISO Certification; Peter Weber Comments

    Carpathia, a QTS-owned subsidiary, has been certified by the International Organization for Standardization for colocation services the company offers through its data center in Northern Virginia. Carpathia said Wednesday the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification specifies security requirements for information technology systems that organizations need to adopt in order to achieve compliance with the standard. Peter Weber, chief […] More

  • Chris Sullivan on Tech's Role in Serco US Arm's Business Strategy, CIO-Exec Collaborations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Sullivan on Tech’s Role in Serco US Arm’s Business Strategy, CIO-Exec Collaborations

    Chris Sullivan joined Serco Inc. — the North American subsidiary of Serco Group — in January 2013 as chief information officer to oversee strategic direction, operation and overall business management of information technology systems. The 27-year IT and GovCon veteran previously held the CIO role at Computer Sciences Corp.’s North American public sector for four years. ExecutiveBiz recently spoke to […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Launches Digital Evidence Mgmt Device; Bruce Brda Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions Launches Digital Evidence Mgmt Device; Bruce Brda Comments

    Motorola Solutions has introduced an integrated device offering that combines body-worn video camera, radio speaker and microphone designed for law enforcement requirements. The Si500 and Si300 video speaker microphone functions hand in hand with the cloud-based CommandCentral Vault storage service, Motorola said Tuesday. Bruce Brda, executive vice president of systems and products for Motorola Solutions, […] More

  • NGA Seeks Info on Tools for Insider Threat Detection in Virtual Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Seeks Info on Tools for Insider Threat Detection in Virtual Infrastructure

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has asked industry to provide information on platforms built to detect insider threats in virtual network environments. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct. 13 that it is in search for tools intended to log data on the actions that users and network administrators perform in its virtual infrastructure as well […] More

  • Sudeep Dharan Joins Acendre as CTO; Mike Giuffrida Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sudeep Dharan Joins Acendre as CTO; Mike Giuffrida Comments

    Sudeep Dharan, formerly senior vice president of product development at Razorsight, has joined cloud-based talent management software provider Acendre as chief technology officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of Acendre’s technology goals and product roadmap, Acendre said Monday. “Sudeep brings a strong track record of technology-driven innovation that will enable us to meet […] More

  • Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments

    Verizon has launched a networking service to help federal agencies and other public sector organizations link and manage their workloads across cloud computing platforms and data centers. The Secure Cloud Interconnect works to provide users a private Internet connection in order to access information and applications stored in data centers and private, public and hybrid cloud platforms, Verizon said Wednesday. […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering

    Amazon Web Services has introduced a fresh data transport tool for customers designed to transfer large volumes of data using secure appliances. AWS Import/Export Snowball works to transport up to 50 terabytes of data into and out of AWS and protect the transfer process with secure enclosures, 256-bit encryption and a trusted platform module, AWS […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe's Govt Cloud Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe’s Govt Cloud Service Offering

    Datapipe has obtained a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a managed private cloud hosting service in the U.S. government sector. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted Datapipe a provisional authority-to-operate status for its Federal Community Cloud Platform, the company said Thursday. The company aims to help agencies manage sensitive information as […] More

  • OpenGov Names Marc Andreessen to the Board; Raises $25M in Funding Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OpenGov Names Marc Andreessen to the Board; Raises $25M in Funding Round

    OpenGov, a provider of a cloud-based financial reporting platform for government agencies, has appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, to the board of directors. Andreessen will advise OpenGov on corporate growth matters and help the firm further develop its cloud platform, OpenGov said Thursday. “It’s exciting to have the support of […] More

  • OCC Taps DMI for Managed Mobility Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OCC Taps DMI for Managed Mobility Services

    Digital Management Inc. has secured a contract to operate, review and deploy managed mobility services for the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. DMI will work to negotiate prices of Wi-Fi and mobile devices, mobile hotspots, and voice and data plans on behalf of OCC through the General Services Administration’s Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative contract vehicle, […] More

  • Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov't Under FedRAMP ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov’t Under FedRAMP ATO

    Salesforce.com has received an authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer Salesforce Analytics Cloud with its Salesforce Government Cloud portfolio to public sector agencies. Dave Rey, executive vice president of sales for Salesforce’s North American public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday that Salesforce Analytics Cloud works to provide data intelligence to agencies. He added that […] More

  • VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments

    Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. VArmour will offer network control, policy enforcement and visibility to clients with workloads that run on AWS cloud environments through its Distributed Security System, vArmour said Monday. […] More