Recent technology business headlines from around the U.S. and beyond:
FireEye announced a strategic alliance with ACE Group, a global property and casualty insurer. The relationship brings together expert technical insight from FireEye to assess an individual organization’s threat exposure, with ACE’s Loss Mitigation Services program, a multi-tier offering that helps organizations fully understand and mitigate their cyber security risk. Together, the companies will offer improved visibility into the cyber security preparedness of each client, allowing cyber insurance to be tailored specifically for their risk profile.
Xerox has acquired Healthy Communities Institute, a Berkeley, Calif.-based company with a health IT cloud platform aimed at hospitals, public health agencies and community coalitions, the company announced on Monday.
Splunk has appointed former GE Capital CIO Snehal Antani as its new chief technology officer to direct the long-term vision for the company’s cloud, mobile, on-premises and hybrid offerings, according an announcement on Monday. Antani will report directly to Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman and CEO, Splunk.
Deloitte Consulting has chosen Dimension Data as the cloud service provider to deliver Enterprise Application and Analytic workloads for business transformation and the Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform™, as the infrastructure-as-a-service, according to an announcement. "The combination of the Dimension Data MCP and Deloitte business transformation solutions enables the client to align IT to business outcomes," said Shelley Perry, senior vice-president, research and development, for Dimension Data’s ITaaS Business Unit. "We’re investing in new, advanced technology from companies like the EMC Federation and Cisco to enable a hybrid cloud strategy. By surrounding enterprise applications, moving to the cloud, with all the services and capabilities they require, we’re simplifying IT transformation."
