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GOVERNMENT IT REPORT August 3, 2021

The U.S. government is moving quickly and aggressively to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting both the federal government and the private sector. Information technology companies that are directly and indirectly involved in providing IT products and services to the federal government will be especially affected by the "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.]

Software Business Driving US Jobs, GDP Growth

By John P. Mello Jr.
May 5, 2021
TechNewsWorld
1073 Words

The software industry fueled jobs and GDP growth in the United States in 2020, according to a report by Software.org: the BSA Foundation. The software industry supported more than 15.8 million jobs in 2020. While the largest concentrations of software jobs remain in traditional tech hubs, such as Wa...

Software Piracy Spreading With the Virus

By Jack M. Germain
Sep 1, 2020
E-Commerce Times
1638 Words

Software piracy involves much more than businesses and consumers using illegal copies of computer programs. What lurks within the pirated copies is often rogue code -- malware -- that can be just as deadly to computers and users' finances. Software companies are reporting that piracy has increased 2...

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Automating Complexity Out, Efficiency In

By Dana Gardner
Oct 1, 2012
E-Commerce Times
905 Words

Cloud infrastructure and hosted IT services provider Savvis has been able to automate out complexity and add deep efficiency to its operations using a range of performance, operations orchestration and Business Service Automation solutions from HP. Savvis has improved its incident resolution and spe...