Unisys is one of six contractors that have been named to a new Agriculture Department information technology contract vehicle that has a ceiling value of $25 million over five years.

Unisys Awarded Contract Vehicle to Provide IT Security and Support Services for the United States Department of Agriculture

TechCrunchIT published this article about the recently announced Unisys Secure Cloud Solution.

In the Outsourcing Journal, the award-winning Unisys-City of Minneapolis relationship benefits citizens and government operations. Read more about this "Best Partnership."

Enterprise Systems Journal conducted a Q&A with Unisys Brian Ott around "Innovation and IT." The article includes a discussion of the Unisys/IDG Market Pulse survey.

This video discusses key topics surrounding the skyrocketing concept of cloud computing and where Unisys believes things are and should be headed.

Global Services features the announcement about Unisys Secure Cloud Solutions, which became available to clients on July 31.

Federal Computer Week includes a byliner by Unisys Andy Hoskinson on the impact of more government transparency and data sharing with the public.

Coverage of Unisys work with Starbucks to provide data center outsourcing services appeared in Global Services.

Victorian Department of Transport All Aboard with Unisys Passenger Information System for Metropolitan Train Stations

Unisys Adds Full-Page Imaging to SmartSource® Micro Series Payment Systems with New MicroEX Model

Unisys Corporation Announces Successful Completion of Private Debt Exchange Offers That Reduces 2010 Debt Maturities from $300 Million to $65 Million

Unisys Delivers Secure Cloud Solution, Expanding CIOs' Options for Moving Application Workloads to the Cloud

Unisys Announces Next-Generation SmartSource; Adaptive Family of Image Capture Devices

Unisys, as Member of a Consortium, Signs Framework Contract for Managed Services with the European Commission

In the days of the mainframe, when computers and their peripherals filled entire rooms, people communicated with these machines first via punch cards and then via green-glowing monitors, which were simply dumb terminals. Only with the rise of personal computers did the user interface become more intelligent, responsive and graphical.

It is not just that more and more software will become a service delivered online. More importantly, applications, web-based or not, will no longer come as a big chunk of software, but will be made up of a combination of electronic services – a shift that has picked up a lot of speed since computing began moving into the cloud.

Computer users are going to need browsers that are a good deal more secure than they are today. As computer applications move from the desktop to the web (“cloud” in modern geek-speak), more of people’s personal and professional lives will be filtered through their browsers. Keeping such information secure is becoming essential.

Open source is so widely accepted that traditional software firms are beginning to dabble in it, while some open-source firms are starting to sell proprietary add-ons to open-source programs instead of charging to provide support to firms using open-source software. If current trends hold, traditional software firms and their open-source rivals will soon be hard to tell apart.

Starbucks Selects Unisys for Data Center Outsourcing Services in China