David Zolet Executive Mosaic is honored to announce David Zolet, executive vice president and general manager of CSC’s North American public sector, as the newest inductee into the Washington 100, the premier group of leaders who drive innovation and growth at the intersection of the public and private sectors. Zolet joined CSC’s NA public sector...
IBM will release an application programming interface and software development kit to third-party developers seeking to build cloud computing apps based on the Watson technology. The company and its venture capital partners will work together to help software entrepreneurs bring Watson-powered apps and services to market, IBM said Thursday. “By sharing IBM Watson’s cognitive abilities...
IDC Research indicates that increasing demand for applications and lower information technology costs are driving growth in the platform as a service market, CloudPro reported Monday. Rene Millman, writes the global public PaaS market will be worth $14 billion by 2017, citing a study by the analysis and advisory firm. That figure is up 69...
Dell has committed to become an annual sponsor for the Cloud Standards Customer Council, an advocacy group comprising of cloud computing technology end users. The computer company will seek to help accelerate cloud adoption and security and advocate for interests of cloud consumers, CSCC’s parent organization Object Management Group said Tuesday. Dell also chairs the OMG...
Defense software and security companies have weighed in on how to use cross-domain products that use virtualization technology in cloud computing environments, according to a KMI Media Group report published July 19. Peter Buxbaum writes there is agreement on the need for technology that can merge information from disparate data repositories that have different types...
Much has been said about government contractors’ push into international and commercial markets as the Defense Department and federal agencies see flat to down budgets due to sequestration and a dip from previous spending trajectories among other market forces. The government contracting market as a whole lies tangential to commercial markets in many ways. The...
Governments looking to adopt new communication technologies for public service should make sure they are buying products that are modular, scalable and widely compatible, IBM Federal General Manager Anne Altman writes for Federal Times. Altman cautioned agencies against purchasing “dead end” software that could potentially end collaboration between federal agencies instead of encouraging it. She...
A new report from CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis predicts that enterprises will have outsourced 70 percent of their information technology infrastructure by 2018. Positive cash flow and a shortage of skills in-house are among factors that will prompt the gradual shift to cloud computing, CenturyLink said Thursday. The “Global IT Trends: IT Outsourcing Fuels Business Growth” report...
A new Deltek study on the future of the federal information technology sector projects the IT outsourcing market to increase from $26 billion in fiscal year to $26.7 billion for fiscal 2018. The GovWin IQ report projects agencies to increasingly on outsourcing and contractor support driven by budget and skills gap issues as agencies work harder...
Whitney Vickrey, chief service officer at GCE, has outlined several common beliefs customers have on migrating to a cloud-based environment and how providers are working to address each opinion, which she calls misconceptions. Vickrey told ClickSoftware in a blog post published Sept. 17 that customers’ chief concerns have always centered on the areas of data security and...
