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  • Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer

    Praveen Asthana, former senior vice president at Oracle, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. Forcepoint said  Monday Asthana will oversee global marketing for the company and its four business areas including cloud security, network security, global governments and data and insider threat security. Asthana will also report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and support the […] More

  • Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud

    Carl De Groote, senior director for the Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said the company collaborates with DoD to facilitate the migration of Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud, Defense Systems reported Thursday. JRSS is a set of tools designed to detect breaches, provide firewall functions and perform virtual routing and forwarding, enterprise […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said engineering and microservices are some of the factors that have driven most government agencies’ strategies as they transition from legacy information technology systems to hybrid cloud platforms, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. “The definition of cloud has really, really changed, and it’s really about your engineering […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Amazon Vet Peter Cohen Joins Fortinet Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Vet Peter Cohen Joins Fortinet Board

    Peter Cohen, a 17-year veteran of Amazon and co-founder of Xendota, has joined the board of directors at Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity firm Fortinet. Cohen said in a statement published Tuesday he aims to help “provide strategic counsel on the cloud technology priorities, partnerships and innovations that will help contribute to the company’s continued momentum with enterprise customers.” He currently […] More

  • Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service

    Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web Services cloud regions and the […] More

  • CGI Offers Cloud ERP Platform Through Multi-State Procurement Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Offers Cloud ERP Platform Through Multi-State Procurement Initiative

    CGI has begun to offer a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform to state and local government entities that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative procurement program. The company said Wednesday it offers the CGI Advantage360 software-as-a-service ERP platform to NASPO ValuePoint participants under a master agreement with the state of Utah. CGI Advantage consists of software, business process services and […] More

  • InfoZen Helps NASA Create Online Multimedia Database - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoZen Helps NASA Create Online Multimedia Database

    InfoZen has helped NASA to develop and launch a searchable database of 14,000 downloadable images, video and audio files on the images.nasa.gov website, GCN reported Wednesday. The database is hosted in Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform and powered by Limelight Network‘s content delivery service, according to the report. InfoZen operates the online library using the AWS Lambda serverless computing service. […] More

  • Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks' Software-Defined Storage Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks’ Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

    Eric Barton, former lead architect of Intel‘s high performance data division, has joined DataDirect Networks as chief technology officer of its software-defined storage portfolio. DDN said Wednesday his new role entails oversight of strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for the company’s newly formed Infinite Memory Engine business unit. “Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding […] More

  • Cisco Unveils Cyber Threat Defense Tool for Connected Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Unveils Cyber Threat Defense Tool for Connected Devices

    Cisco has introduced a technology platform that works to protect internet of things-based devices from cyber threats through network segmentation. Cisco IoT Threat Defense is an architectural service offering designed to protect health care, power grid, manufacturing and other critical infrastructure from potential cyber attacks, the company said Tuesday. The platform uses a network segmentation […] More

  • SAIC to Establish Tennessee-Based IT Services Hub; Tony Moraco Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Establish Tennessee-Based IT Services Hub; Tony Moraco Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has announced plans to open a center of excellence for information technology services in Cookeville, Tennessee, this summer. SAIC said Monday its Technology Integration Gateway center will be located in the Regions Bank Building and will offer cloud, cybersecurity and data science support to government and commercial customers. “Since 1969, SAIC has been doing business in Tennessee and the establishment […] More

  • Hughes Unveils Software-Based WAN Offering for Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Unveils Software-Based WAN Offering for Govt Customers

    Hughes Network Systems has unveiled a software-defined wide area network offering designed to help public sector customers address cloud readiness, network flexibility and application availability challenges. The company said Monday it developed the Managed SD-WAN platform as part of its portfolio of HughesON managed network and digital media products. “With organizations continuing to adopt new cloud-based and rich media applications, networks are facing […] More