(Raleigh, N.C.) Resolvit, LLC, an information technology (IT) and business solutions provider to world-class companies and government agencies, today announced the appointment of Mark Williams as its solutions director for the company’s southern area of operations. Williams’ responsibilities include uncovering and responding to project-based consulting opportunities and overseeing the day-to-day operations relating to contract awards and deliverables. (more…)

(London, England & Research Triangle Park, N.C.) A new report - Cisco TechWatch 2012 - released by Cisco reveals the technology priorities and business challenges which senior IT decision makers in the UK anticipate in 2012. The report finds that on the surface IT decision makers are upbeat about 2012, with high aspirational goals for deploying technology which can innovate and drive their organisations forward. In particular they see Cloud (rated number one) and mobile device support / remote access (rated number three) as key priorities. (more…)

(Needham, Mass. & Chapel Hill, N.C.) OMG®’s Business Architecture Special Interest Group and the Business Architecture Guild present “Business Architecture: Taking it to the Next Level,” a one-day special event on March 21, 2012 in Reston, VA. Information and registration information may be found at http://www.omg.org/ba-pr. This one-day only event, cosponsored by OMG’s Business Architecture Special Interest Group (BASIG) and the Business Architecture Guild, will bring together practitioners and industry leaders to discuss business architecture best practices and deployment strategies. One of the featured speakers will be Steve Dean, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of North Carolina, presenting on Healthcare Transformation with Business Architecture. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Jackrabbit Technologies, leading provider of web-based solutions for youth activities centers, has adopted a worldwide charity, Grain of Wheat International, that supports the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of underprivileged or hurting children by providing camp, creative arts and leadership training opportunities to them. Jackrabbit’s eight market segments span a broad range of businesses that are focused on providing learning opportunities to children all over the world. Grain of Wheat’s work – that reaches more than 300,000 children annually in thirty countries – provides Jackrabbit with the vehicle to reach children whose economic situations cannot accommodate the luxuries such as dance, music, gymnastics, swim, cheer or martial arts lessons or summer camps, that Jackrabbit’s own clients provide. (more…)

(High Point, N.C.) North State Communications announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Winston Salem-based DataChambers, an information technology (IT) company that offers a full range of managed services and secure co-location facilities for mission-critical IT infrastructure. (more…)

(Chapel Hill, N.C.) Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina today announced it has signed an agreement with Fujitsu America, Inc., a global technology services company, under which FAI will purchase the BCBSNC data center, located in Research Triangle Park, and provide a variety of IS support services to BCBSNC. This agreement is expected to provide BCBSNC with business flexibility and significant operational cost savings, as well as offer professional development opportunities for BCBSNC employees in affected business areas. As part of the agreement, Fujitsu will offer positions to approximately 185 BCBSNC employees. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Autonomic Resources, a GSA IaaS Cloud provider has recently executed the necessary contractual agreements with IBM to allow for SaaS enablement of IBM’s software assets. Utilizing Autonomic’s ARC-P cloud as the delivery method, government agencies will soon be able to utilize IBM technologies in utility based, elastic compute offerings. Autonomic has initially decided to focus on several of the Tivoli software assets including: Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM formerly BigFix), Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), and Federated Identity Manager (FIM). Also included in the ARC-Platform will be products from the Tivoli Maximo family. (more…)

(Garner, N.C.) Since being awarded as a Top 300 Business in the South and being listed as an Inc 5000 company, WingSwept has celebrated 22 consecutive months of profitability and received additional recognition in multiple areas of its business. WingSwept is an IT support company operating in Garner, NC and actively involved in its community. (more…)

(Greensboro, N.C.) Beacon Technologies, a leading Internet Technology company in Greensboro, NC, announced the redesign of its company website www.beacontechnologies.com today. The new and improved site was specifically designed to be easy-to-use and demonstrate the creditability the company has obtained over the past 13 years.  (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) NeoNova Network Services, an industry leader in managed broadband services, today announced that conversions to Google Apps™ continues to grow at a rapid pace nationwide as rural Internet Service Providers (ISP) look to increase service offerings to customers while boosting new revenue streams. (more…)

(Waltham, Mass. & Morrisville, N.C.) mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., a leading IT outsourcing and cloud services provider for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), has announced the expansion of its suite of cloud-based managed desktop services with cloudSHIFT Desktop: Premium.  SMBs can now benefit from mindSHIFT’s depth of technical expertise, highly secure data centers and exceptional customer support to realize the benefits of desktop virtualization.   With cloudSHIFT Desktop, users receive all the benefits of a robust, reliable, secure computer network without having to worry about handling software upgrades, security upgrades, disaster recovery and other headaches associated with managing desktop technology. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, today announced the launch of its OpenStack Compute Appliance, designed to enable IT organizations to deploy and upgrade their OpenStack software faster and easier than ever before. This helps to reduce the barrier to building and maintaining private clouds in the enterprise. With this news, members of the open source community can download this new technology free of charge in either ISO or VMware format. (more…)