Category: Cloud
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Microsoft wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI contract
WASHINGTON — When the dust settles, FCW reports Microsoft could be the cloud provider of choice for the Pentagon for years to come. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract is a large Department of Defense (DOD) cloud computing infrastructure and platform services project. Tech companies interested pursuing this contract included Amazon, Google, and Oracle.…
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Senator Warren’s plan for “Platform Utilities” could down-size tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google
WASHINGTON — In her blog post written Friday of this week, “Here’s how we can break up Big Tech”, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), calls for breaking apart certain components of Alphabet (Google’s parent), Facebook, and Amazon into new components called “Platform Utilities.” According to Senator Warren, these new spinoffs are necessary to launch with new…
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Microsoft and In3 host a STEM Open House for Parents and Students
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today in our Nation’s Capital near Howard University, the Inclusive Innovation Incubator (In3) and Blacks@Microsoft (BAM) invited area students to learn about new and exciting STEM workshops In3 will be hosting in 2019. Local BDPA Student Members and NSBE Jr. Members who attended met Microsoft employees and small business executives to discuss…
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
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AWS Presents: “Underrepresented in Tech—Bridging the Racial Digital Divide”
WASHINGTON (BDPA-DC)—On Thursday, September 28, 2017, students and professionals from area colleges, universities, small businesses and tech organizations joined members of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) teams to participate in their on-going series of panel discussions entitled “Underrepresented in Tech: Bridging the Racial Digital Divide“. Industry seeks to strengthen tech workforce pipelines in underrepresented communities by developing and…
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Apple’s next US data center will be built in Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa — Apple announced today plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data center in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the App Store and other Apple services. Like all Apple data centers, the new facility will run entirely on renewable energy from day one. Apple’s investment of…
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Cisco to acquire APM leader AppDynamics
Combined Portfolio To Provide Unprecedented Application, Business, and Infrastructure Analytics SAN JOSE, CA—Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced its intent to acquire AppDynamics, Inc., a privately held application intelligence software company based in San Francisco. AppDynamics’s cloud application and business monitoring platform enables the world’s largest companies to improve application and business performance. Cisco will acquire AppDynamics…
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Now that Amazon Web Services and VMWare are Married, Who Were the Forsaken Few?
AWS and VMware executives officially unveil their cloud collaboration PALO ALTO, CA—One of bdpatoday’s highlighted stories from industry last week featured Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware executives officially unveiling their cloud collaboration. It was said beneficiaries will include businesses running computing jobs on-prem, in their own data centers, and others on Amazon’s shared public cloud infrastructure. TechCrunch reported VMware inked…
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Azure captures Predix: GE and Microsoft CEO’s announce new deal
Microsoft’s Azure cloud wins a high-profile new customer—GE by Jon Fortt | CNBC TORONTO, ON—In their latest reveal, Microsoft hopes that when GE’s Predix becomes available on Azure next year, its longtime industrial customers will be more likely to adopt Azure. Microsoft also intends to make its other cloud offerings, including Office365, Dynamics, and Cortana, work…
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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Cloud Security Threats
Introducing the ‘Treacherous 12,’ the top security threats organizations face when using cloud services by Fahmida Y. Rashid, InfoWorld SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Enterprises are no longer sitting on their hands, wondering if they should risk migrating applications and data to the cloud. They’re doing it — but security remains a serious concern. The first step in minimizing…