A special committee within Dell‘s (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors is looking at alternative takeover proposals nearly a month after the company agreed to $24.4 billion buyout deal with Silver Lake. The company is evaluating the proposals from Blackstone Group and Carl Icahn during a 45-day go-shop period, Reuters reports. …

William “Bill” Jaffe, former senior vice president and general manager at TAPE, has been promoted to executive VP and GM. Louisa Jaffe, president and CEO, will continue to be responsible for strategic objectives and day-to-day operations, among other areas,  TAPE said Tuesday. Jaffe will be responsible for growth and development efforts …

Technology and IT staffing firm Kavaliro has acquired the Fannie Mae program from Salient Federal Solutions for an undisclosed amount, Kavaliro said Wednesday. Kavaliro obtains Salient’s 58 employees working on the program and contractual resources affiliated with the program, for which Salient has been working for 15 years. Kavaliro President …

Smartronix‘s team to provide government agencies cloud computing-based email services under a $2.5 billion General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement includes Terremark and Verizon. Smartronix said in a release the team also includes two other companies certified to provide agencies with Microsoft products, as Microsoft technology will be a central …

The U.S. Army is seeking industry input as it moves towards awarding a contract for an interoperable virtualization storage product. The branch released a request for information Thursday for a total storage solution for technology infrastructure used by Defense Department and Army organizations. The system’s capacity currently stands at 672 terabytes through multiple …

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) has appointed current HP Software president Bill Veghte as HP’s new chief strategy officer, the company announced Tuesday. HP said Veghte will hold both positions and is now responsible for maintaining the company’s position “on the cutting edge of innovation.” HP said Veghte will work with the company’s …

  TWD has won a $121 million SeaPort-e task order with the Naval Sea Systems Command. The firm will provide enterprise IT services and support and will work directly with the Command Information Office. The company will support NAVSEA with Microsoft SharePoint development and administration, network architecture and design, systems management and virtualization, …

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has announced that Standard & Poor’s will add Accenture’s common stock to the S&P 500 Index after the close of trading July 5. “We are very pleased to join the S&P 500, ” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s CEO. “It is an important recognition of our continued focus …

Enterprise Ventures Corporation, a wholly owned affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation, has acquired the assets of healthcare consulting and technology services firm Coremotive. Coremotive staff will continue to serve its clients alongside CTC subject-matter experts. Concurrent Technologies is using the acquisition to diversify into the healthcare marketplace and to grow …

GovConWire’s publisher Executive Mosaic is this week releasing its spring edition of GovConExec magazine, which takes a deep dive into cloud computing and includes highlight input from top executives for the region’s government contracting sector who are leading the migration and leveraging the power of the cloud. Although not a …