TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2017 — Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has certified InfoReliance for its technical capability to support workload migration and deployment on Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) cloud platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. InfoReliance, an ECS company, said Friday it received AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency status across SharePoint, SQL Server and Exchange. …

Kurt DelBene, executive vice president of corporate strategy, core services engineering and operations at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has taken the additional role of chief digital officer at the company, the Seattle Times reported Friday. In this capacity, DelBene will oversee Microsoft’s internal information technology groups, operations and corporate strategy as the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled an Internet of Things hub that aims to assist Azure Government cloud customer agencies in efforts to track, manage and secure connected devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Tom Keane, general manager of the Microsoft Azure engineering team, wrote in a …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 23, 2017 — In-Q-Tel and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are among the investors that participated in a $16 million funding round for cloud application delivery company Frame, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. IQT said Wednesday Frame aims to utilize the funds to support further development of its cloud-native application delivery platform and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has added Palo Alto Networks‘ (NYSE: PANW) VM-Series virtualized firewall as a tool on the Azure Government Cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The inclusion of the firewall on the cloud platform serves to help public sector customers protect their applications and data with functions that …

Julie Brill, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, has been named corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for privacy and regulatory affairs at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Brill will directly report to Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, and will begin her new position by the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2017 — DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the new company formed out of the merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) services business and Computer Sciences Corp., has partnered with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to jointly offer a hybrid cloud service, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. DXC said Tuesday the DXC …

Catherine Kuenzel, formerly executive vice president and general manager of the homeland security group at CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as vice president of enterprise services for the company’s public sector business in the Americas, GovCon Wire has learned. Before she joined CSRA in 2015, Kuenzel was …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has worked with China Electronics Technology Group to develop a version of the Windows 10 operating system specifically for the Chinese government, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday China will review the customized software before it can be included in a …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received authorization to operate its Azure Government cloud platform to support sensitive workloads at the Department of Veterans Affairs through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said in a blog post published Wednesday the FedRAMP …