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  • Siki Giunta: Verizon Cloud Marketplace to Offer Hitachi Cloud Tiering Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siki Giunta: Verizon Cloud Marketplace to Offer Hitachi Cloud Tiering Tech

    Verizon has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to offer the Hitachi Content Platform adaptive cloud tiering technology via the Verizon Cloud Marketplace and deliver enterprise content management and hybrid cloud functions. Siki Giunta, senior vice president of cloud services at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Monday that the partnership aims to support the business of Verizon Cloud customers by facilitating efficiency in […] More

  • Delphix Gets Onboard Dell Cloud Marketplace; James Thomason Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Delphix Gets Onboard Dell Cloud Marketplace; James Thomason Comments

    Delphix has joined the Dell Cloud Marketplace as it targets performance and data management gains for clients with public and hybrid cloud setups. The virtual data solutions company said its participation will provide IT managers and developers an opportunity to seamlessly move, distribute and retrieve data, Delphix said Nov. 5. The Dell Cloud Marketplace self-service […] More

  • Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud

    Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

  • IBM Deploys 'Smart Analytics' Tech for Enterprise Cloud Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Deploys ‘Smart Analytics’ Tech for Enterprise Cloud Security

    IBM has put together a new suite of tools designed to keep cloud data protected through the use of smart analytics technology. The Dynamic Cloud Security portfolio is a collection of the company’s software and services curated by its engineers in the past year to provide offerings for visibility, management of security operations, control of data and to authenticate access to applications in the hybrid cloud, IBM said […] More

  • Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With 'Secured Support' Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Testoni: SAP to Offer US Agencies Cloud Package With ‘Secured Support’ Options

    SAP and its U.S. subsidiary SAP National Security Services have developed a new managed cloud package for U.S. federal agencies to host government and custom applications and operations. SAP said Thursday it worked with agencies to develop a portfolio that combines cloud, hosted and on-premise functions to meet particular agency needs and regulatory or security requirements. The company designed the cloud offering to comply with the National Institute […] More

  • IBM, Microsoft Announce Hybrid Cloud Partnership; Robert LeBlanc Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Microsoft Announce Hybrid Cloud Partnership; Robert LeBlanc Comments

    IBM and Microsoft have inked a cooperation agreement intended to expand the enterprise customer’s hybrid cloud options. Under the partnership, the two companies will make their enterprise software available on both IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, providing more avenues for partners, developers and other clients to pursue their business goals, IBM said Wednesday. The relationship […] More

  • Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE

    VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

  • Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments

    Hitachi and its subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems have unveiled an x86-based logical partitioning solution for SAP HANA to support server virtualization and network consolidation on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment. The company said Sunday Hitachi LPAR works to provide computing and storage functions for system utilization and to streamline operations with a consolidated infrastructure. Mike Walkey, senior vice president for […] More

  • Cisco Intercloud Network Adds 30 Partners, 250 Global Data Centers; Rob Lloyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Intercloud Network Adds 30 Partners, 250 Global Data Centers; Rob Lloyd Comments

    Cisco has added at least 30 Intercloud Fabric partners and 250 data centers as the company pushes forward with its plans to build a global network of interconnected clouds to support the Internet of Everything. The company said Monday its partners – cloud providers, builders, aggregators and resellers as well as independent software vendors – deploy hybrid cloud infrastructure to support enterprise operations. Rob Lloyd, Cisco president […] More

  • Peter Weber: Carpathia to Offer VMware vCloud Gov't Service via Early Access Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Weber: Carpathia to Offer VMware vCloud Gov’t Service via Early Access Program

    Carpathia will launch the Early Access Program for its VMware vCloud Government Service based on feedback from the invited participants to its earlier beta-testing program on the enterprise-class hybrid cloud service. Peter Weber, Carpathia CEO, wrote Friday on the company blog that the new program is open to federal CIOs and IT organizations that plan to develop and test cloud applications on […] More

  • Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 Offers to Manage Variety of Clouds

    Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

  • Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Partners with IBM, Deloitte to Centralize Pennsylvania’s Data Centers

    Unisys will collaborate with IBM and Deloitte Consulting to consolidate seven data centers of Pennsylvania into a hybrid cloud platform under a seven-year, $681 million contract, eWeek reported Thursday. Jeffrey Burt writes Pennsylvania’s state agencies will have access to support services hosted in Unisys’ data centers for their infrastructures, storage, security and database services. Unisys […] More