Kevin Scott, senior vice president of infrastructure at business social networking company LinkedIn, has been named chief technology officer at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Scott will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as a member of the senior leadership team and will oversee “strategic, cross-company initiatives, ” Microsoft said Tuesday. …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 11, 2017 — Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Qualcomm‘s venture businesses have invested in the Israel-based cybersecurity startup creator Team8, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. A article by Bloomberg’s Gwen Ackerman reported that Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president at Microsoft’s venture arm, said the company intends to collaborate with Team8 to study cybersecurity challenges. About Executive …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract for consulting services to support the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to update its Microsoft products. The company will develop new enterprise capacities for the Air Force Network to help address the military branch’s security mission requirements as part …

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a five-year, $927 million contract to provide enterprise technical support for blue badge cardholder services at the Defense Department. The department said Tuesday that Microsoft’s software developers and product teams will provide proprietary resources, source code, consulting and knowledge bases to the Defense Information Systems Agency under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 15, 2016 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled that the Azure Blueprint platform for processing “authority to operate” designations is available to support the high baseline system of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. A company blog post published Tuesday said Azure Blueprint will …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 14, 2016 — Force Protection Video Equipment‘s body-worn cameras and surveillance products now offer cloud storage for videos, photos and audio files on Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government Cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Force Protection said Monday law enforcement agencies may store files from their Force Protection …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has expanded its Azure Government Cloud‘s provisional authorization-to-operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program with five new offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The addition of Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple and Backup brings the total number of FedRAMP high baseline-compliant …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will offer Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) cloud security suite on the Azure Government marketplace in an effort to provide public customers with cloud workload protection and security services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Booz Allens’ Virtual Cloud Defense suite will help organizations …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 27, 2016 — Riverbed Technology‘s application performance management tools will be available via Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) public sector cloud marketplace as part of a partnership between the two companies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud Marketplace will offer government customers Riverbed’s SteelHead CX and SteelCentral AppInternals platforms …