Category: Microsoft
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BDPA at 50: Industry Executives and Delegates Assemble to Commemorate the Association’s Golden Anniversary
ATLANTA, Georgia—National BDPA, Inc. (BDPA), founded in 1975 and formerly known as Black Data Processing Associates, in collaboration with major tech industry partners, proudly announce the return of this flagship event, BDPACON25, to Atlanta—a city long recognized as a powerhouse of research and development (R&D), HBCU excellence in technology, innovation, and digital workforce transformation. Celebrating…
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Celebrating Microsoft’s 50 years
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the following remarks at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary today. It’s so wonderful to be here with all of you celebrating 50 years of Microsoft. And it’s especially exciting to be doing it at a time like this. For me, though, it starts with Bill [Gates] and Steve [Ballmer], who are…
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Future of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Contract
PENTAGON—Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) canceled the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud solicitation and initiated contract termination procedures. The Department has determined that, due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs. The Department continues to have unmet cloud capability gaps for enterprise-wide,…
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H.O.P.E. Project DMV and BDPA-DC earn $300K Microsoft Community Skills Grant
WASHINGTON―The HOPE Project DMV (hopeprojectonline.com) in partnership with National BDPA’s Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter (bdpadc.org) was awarded a Microsoft community skills grant. Through this grant, they will receive funding, leadership development and tech enablement to support their work in providing digital skills and workforce development opportunities within their community. Each are very thrilled to fuel local tech talent and work together to expand their programs,…
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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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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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Microsoft Inks $927M Pentagon Deal
FORT MEADE, MD [Nasdaq]—Under a new contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Microsoft will provide new consulting services that include software developers and product teams “to leverage a variety of proprietary resources and source code,” as well as the firm’s premier support services like tools and knowledge centers and problem resolution assistance from…
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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…