Frank Vella, formerly chief revenue officer at BlueJeans Network, has joined New York-based business intelligence and analytics platforms provider Information Builders as chief operating officer. Vella will collaborate with Information Builders’ executive group to seek new market opportunities, support expansion efforts and create growth strategies, the company said Monday. His appointment …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 18, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has secured certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the deployment of its “intelligent” business applications to U.S. government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. James Townsend, CEO of Microsoft partner company Infostrat, said in a blog post published Monday that the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 17, 2017 — Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have collaborated to launch a deep learning library that will work to support the development, prototyping and deployment of machine learning models, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Microsoft said Thursday the open source Gluon platform seeks to facilitate …

A team composed of Dell EMC, Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has received a potential five year, $1 billion contract to build a cloud-based collaboration and unified communications platform for the U.S. Air Force. The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service awarded the contract as part of …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has added its Network Performance Monitor tool for checking hybrid network connectivity as part of the Azure Government Cloud-Virginia platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Sarah Weldon, Azure program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that NPM will work to …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 30, 2017 — BAE Systems has partnered with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to provide Office 365 software and services to intelligence agencies under the Intelligence Community Desktop Environment program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Jonathan Morse, director of business architecture at BAE Systems Inc., wrote in an article published Aug. 15 that …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed to offer information technology training to military service members transitioning to civilian life, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. CompTIA said Tuesday the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy will accept the organization’s Network+ and Security+ …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 10, 2017 — CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has added Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure cloud computing services to its offerings for federal agencies under the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Azure suite is categorized under Special Item Number 132-40 and builds on …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 26, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has added a media analytics tool and artificial intelligence platform to the Azure Government cloud in support of government customer needs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company introduced the Cognitive Services White Glove Program on July 17 and the Azure Media Analytics technology on …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has expanded the availability of its Azure Government cloud platform to two additional data center regions in Arizona and Texas in efforts to support government customer workloads and data, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Tom Keane, general manager of engineering for Microsoft Azure, wrote in …