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Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the global cloud services market will reach $555 billion in 2020. The compound annual growth rate is estimated to be 17.6 percent between 2014 and 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. The report contains analyses for formulating market strategies and examines market factors to determine growth trends in various geographies. The report also identifies key application segments […] More

Frost and Sullivan has released a study that predicts the U.S. healthcare cloud market will reach $3.5 billion by 2020, iHealthBeat reported Friday. Shruthi Parakkal, healthcare research analyst at Frost and Sullivan, cited several results of cloud migration as information technology staff management, reduced upfront costs, operational efficiency, on-demand data access and deployment, according to the report. The report indicates stakeholders are […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets forecast predicts the three-dimensional printing market will be worth $8.43 billion by 2020. The growth represents a compound annual rate of 14.37 percent between 2014 and 2020 across the aerospace, automotive, consumer, defense, healthcare, industrial, education and research sectors, MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday. MarketsandMarkets attributes the growth of 3D printing market in the Americas to initiatives the governments in the […] More

A new ReportsnReports research forecasts the global big data market in the oil and gas sector will grow 56.45 percent in size by 2018. The report predicts the oil and gas big data market will implement predictive modeling tools to forecast future development strategies through the use of historical data, ReportsnReports said Monday. The research also indicates “huge data explosion” […] More

Patrick Coomans, a security specialist at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has urged enterprises to relook their password strategies and work toward adopting more secure methods of authenticating identities. Coomans, senior identity strategist at Verizon’s identity solutions division, wrote on the company blog Wednesday that the proliferation of common password use, coupled with lightning-fast password-guessing software at […] More

The global market for small arms is expected to grow into a $5 billion industry in five years as technological innovation moves forward and demand for non-defense use increases, new analysis from MarketsandMarkets revealed. The analyst said Wednesday the report predicts a market that will grow at a rate of 4.17 percent year over year from 2014 to […] More

WidePoint Corp. has been awarded three task orders and one contract extension for telecommunications system management services to multiple U.S. federal government agencies. The company received an order and a modification through an existing blanket purchase agreement and won another two contracts from a cabinet-level department, WidePoint said Monday. “We are excited to see these […] More

The U.S. Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries strive to build the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier without exceeding the authorized budget, said HII CEO Mike Petters, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh Lessig writes Petters was responding to a Government Accountability Office report that predicts the Navy’s supercarrier project would not meet the $12.9 […] More