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  • Red Hat Symposium to Focus on Government IT Modernization; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Symposium to Focus on Government IT Modernization; Paul Smith Comments

    Red Hat will hold its annual symposium Nov. 2 in Arlington, Virginia to highlight the role of open source technology in digital transformation efforts across the government sector. The company said Wednesday it expects the 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium to draw more than 650 government and industry professionals to help address information technology challenges that public sector agencies face. Paul Smith, senior vice president and […] More

  • Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020

    A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, predicts the global private and public cloud market in financial services industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The 107-page market research report incorporates analysis and inputs from industry professionals and covers the market landscape and its growth forecast over the next […] More

  • Paul Smith: Red Hat Extends Subscription Program to Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Smith: Red Hat Extends Subscription Program to Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud

    Red Hat and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to help public sector clients adopt Microsoft’s cloud computing technology through their existing open-source Red Hat software subscriptions. Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the company’s Cloud Access program now allows clients to migrate their subscriptions to Azure […] More

  • AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments

    The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve as executive VP of AFCEA […] More

  • NEC Joins Red Hat’s Certified Cloud, Service Provider Program; Paul Smith, Hide Senta Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NEC Joins Red Hat’s Certified Cloud, Service Provider Program; Paul Smith, Hide Senta Comment

    Red Hat has named NEC Corp. of America as a cloud platform and services provider after the latter company completed certification and testing requirements for enterprise cloud deployments. NEC will use managed, multi-tenant models to offer its portfolio of private cloud and platform-as-a-service offerings to government agencies through Red Hat’s Certified Cloud and Service Provider program, […] More

  • DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit

    DLT Solutions will feature its Amazon Web Services offerings and cloud consulting services during the AWS Public Sector Summit from June 20 to 21 in Washington D.C.’s Washington Marriott Wardman Park. The public sector technology provider will showcase how it works to help government clients determine their Cloud Readiness Factor and how its managed services offering supports the AWS platform, DLT said Thursday. […] More

  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Adopt Red Hat Private Cloud Platform; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Adopt Red Hat Private Cloud Platform; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will move to a private cloud computing infrastructure built by Red Hat in an effort to modernize and secure JPL’s on-premise storage and server system. The space agency selected Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to update JPL’s storage service for large computing requirements of scientists and engineers at NASA’s main center for robotic exploration of […] More

  • SteelCloud STIG Remediation Tech for Microsoft, Red Hat OS Available Via GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SteelCloud STIG Remediation Tech for Microsoft, Red Hat OS Available Via GSA Schedule

    SteelCloud will offer its Security Technical Implementation Guide-compliant remediation system for Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux via a new five-year Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded by the General Services Administration. The company said Thursday the ConfigOS system is a client-less technology that works to perform STIG scans on up to 5,000 endpoints and remediate up to 3,000 endpoints per hour. SteelCloud CEO Brian Hajost said its offering […] More

  • Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director

    Nutanix has appointed Sean McLaughlin to oversee the growth efforts of the company’s federal civilian agency business as director for civilian sales. McLaughlin’s new role entails collaborating with customers and industry partners to utilize the enterprise cloud platform toward a shared services strategy, targeting Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scores and building up data center environments, Nutanix said […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help QGroup Deploy Servers for German Military's IT Networks; Nadia Short Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help QGroup Deploy Servers for German Military’s IT Networks; Nadia Short Comments

    General Dynamics will help implement and maintain QGroup-built servers in an effort to protect the German federal armed forces’ information technology networks from security vulnerabilities under a contract held by the latter company. The contract with Germany’s armed forces covers work to deploy of QTrust Server platform that runs on the General Dynamics-built PitBull Trusted Operating System, General Dynamics […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie Heise, vice president of commercial […] More