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  • Allied Market Research: Global Hadoop Service Market to Reach $16.1B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Market Research: Global Hadoop Service Market to Reach $16.1B by 2020

    Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to hold nearly 90 percent of […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Radware to Cybersecurity Alliance; Jeff Laskowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Radware to Cybersecurity Alliance; Jeff Laskowski Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

  • Executive Profile: Mike Walsh, EMC Director of DoD Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mike Walsh, EMC Director of DoD Operations

    Mike Walsh is the director for Defense Department operations at EMC Corp.‘s federal division and oversees a range of EMC products designed to help U.S. defense agencies manage information technology systems. He leads a team of professionals who work with DoD to address the agency’s IT infrastructure, application and security management challenges through the use […] More

  • BAE Offers Prescriptive, Predictive Analytics Tool for Communications Service Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Offers Prescriptive, Predictive Analytics Tool for Communications Service Providers

    BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence business has launched a tool that works to facilitate prescriptive and predictive analytics capabilities for communications service providers to guide customer value management and investment activities. The company said Monday its CommsReveal features machine learning and simulation functions to generate insights from CSP customer behavior, prescribe action to address customer churn and investment concerns, and forecast the corresponding […] More

  • Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments

    Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

  • EMC Survey Shows Rise in Global Adoption of Hybrid Cloud; Jeremy Burton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC Survey Shows Rise in Global Adoption of Hybrid Cloud; Jeremy Burton Comments

    EMC has commissioned a survey of 10,451 information technology professionals worldwide to assess their views on the role of IT in organizations. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, indicates a growing adoption of hybrid cloud among companies due to pressure from IT skills gap and the need for an in-house broker of on-demand services, EMC […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds RSA Offerings to GSA Schedule; Robert Moore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds RSA Offerings to GSA Schedule; Robert Moore Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has added the security products and services of RSA, the security division of EMC, to its General Services Administration schedule. Carahsoft serves as the distributor of RSA’s software, hardware and services to the public sector market through the DHS-GSA Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program under the agreement, Carahsoft said Thursday. RSA’s anti-fraud, identity, governance, risk and […] More

  • Research and Markets: Mobile Data Protection Market to Reach $3B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Mobile Data Protection Market to Reach $3B by 2019

    Research and Markets predicts that the global mobile data protection market will continue to experience fast-paced growth to reach a market value of $3.54 billion in five years at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent from 2014 to 2019. The firm said Friday that the risk of data loss and theft due to the growing adoption of bring-your-own-device practices at businesses as […] More

  • EMC Seeks to Establish Ireland-Based Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC Seeks to Establish Ireland-Based Data Center

    EMC wants to build a data center and an office complex in Cork, Ireland, as part of an expansion effort, Data Center Knowledge reported Tuesday. Jason Verge writes EMC lodged an application with the Cork County Council last week to establish a new office campus next to the company’s Ovens research and development center. The […] More

  • Research and Markets: Banking, Financial Services Security Market Worth $37B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Banking, Financial Services Security Market Worth $37B by 2019

    Research and Markets forecasts that the banking, financial services and institutions (BFSI) security market currently valued at $21.53 billion will reach a market value of $37.35 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent. The firm said Monday that the BFSI security market is segmented into two widely adopted submarkets, the physical security systems […] More

  • Joshua Shani: Lockheed Joins Cyber Initiative in Israel to Support Local ICT Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joshua Shani: Lockheed Joins Cyber Initiative in Israel to Support Local ICT Partnerships

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with BGN Technologies, EMC and Jerusalem Venture Partners under Israel’s CyberSpark Industry Initiative, which aims to bolster public-private partnerships in the country as well as international industry collaboration. Lockheed said Monday the nonprofit initiative works to coordinate defense forces, government agencies and academia in Israel for joint cyber industry activities through its cyber center at the Advanced Technologies Park in Beer-Sheva. […] More