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Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to purchase Symantec’s cybersecurity services business from Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) for an undisclosed sum.
Read More »Accenture Strikes Deal With Broadcom for Symantec’s Cyber Services Business; Julie Sweet Quoted
Red River Buys CWPS in Managed IT Services Portfolio Expansion Push; Rick Bolduc Quoted
Claremont, N.H.-based information technology services contractor Red River has acquired Washington, D.C.-based tech platforms provider CWPS for an undisclosed sum to expand its managed services portfolio and geographic presence in the southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.
Read More »AWS Clears Enlighten IT as Managed Service Provider on GovCloud; Dave Levy Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2018 — Amazon Web Services certified Enlighten IT Consulting as an approved provider of AWS cloud managed services to the former’s government customers following a third-party review of the latter’s offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 12. MacAulay-Brown, the parent company of EITC, said Oct. 11 the AWS Managed Service …
Read More »QTS Taps Cohesity to Help Protect Data on Hosted Private Cloud
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 5, 2018 — QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has partnered with Cohesity for the latter to power the QTS Managed Backup platform, which works to protect and ensure the recovery of data and applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The hybrid colocation and data center company said Wednesday Cohesity’s hyperconverged data …
Read More »DLT to Distribute Red Hat Products to Gov’t Agencies Via AWS GovCloud
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2018 — Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) enterprise-grade products will be available to government agencies and regulated industries on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud marketplace via a distribution agreement with DLT Solutions, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. DLT will offer Red Hat’s products and managed services as a “Certified …
Read More »CSRA Subsidiary Gets $238M VA Managed Services Task Order; Kamal Narang Comments
A CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $238 million task order to provide managed services for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ enterprise service desk. SRA International will help migrate VA’s 12 national service desks to managed service provider facilities under the task order that has a one-year …
Read More »Dell Technologies’ Virtustream, Pivotal Offer Managed Hybrid Cloud Service for App Developers
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 — Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DVMT) Virtustream and Pivotal businesses have collaborated to provide an enterprise-grade cloud service that works to support the rapid development and deployment of applications in hybrid cloud environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Virtustream said Wednesday the service is fully managed and designed to …
Read More »CGI to Support Cloud Migration of LA Gov’t Financial Systems
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2017 — CGI (NYSE: GIB) will support the city of Los Angeles’ accounting, budgeting and financial reporting systems under a potential $43 million contract for cloud hosting and managed digital application services, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the contract works to transition the Los Angeles government’s financial systems …
Read More »AWS Certifies QTS as ‘Advanced Consulting Partner’ for Cloud Management
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 24, 2017 — Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has named data center services provider QTS Realty Trust as an “Advanced Consulting Partner” after the latter met requirements to manage client access to AWS cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. QTS said Thursday the certification works to build on its …
Read More »Sutherland’s Teresa Weipert: Gov’t Eyes Customer Service as Part of Digital Transformation
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 21, 2017 — Teresa Weipert, senior vice president of Sutherland Global Services‘ government solutions unit, has said the government has adopted the concept of the “chief customer officer” as part of its digital transformation and efforts to build on its services to the public. “The Chief Customer …
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