Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm Forcepoint has appointed two new executives to vice president positions as the company works to deliver cyber capabilities to government clients worldwide. Tim Solms, formerly VP for federal business and managing director of worldwide government at Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), will serve as se...
Bask Iyer, chief information officer and internet of things manager at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has assumed the additional role of interim CIO of Dell Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Steven Norton writes a spokesman for Dell told the Journal that Iyer took the acting CIO post after Dell Inc. CIO ML Krakauer filed a ...
Phil O’Reilly, former chief technology officer for Americas and federal sales at Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), has been appointed as vice president of federal sales at the San Jose, California-based data center networking technology provider. Brocade said Thursday he will oversee the company’s sales and partner e...
User behavior analytics provider Gurucul has appointed Beau Hutto as vice president for federal sales to help drive the company’s government market reach. Hutto joined Gurucul from Blue Coat Systems where he held a similar role and assisted in the security company’s year-on-year revenue and workforce growth, Gurucul said Tuesda...
After a review by the General Services Administration, the White House and intelligence agencies, Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky Lab may no longer sell to federal agencies via civilian acquisition contract vehicles. Kaspersky was dropped from the pre-approved vendors list provided by NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurem...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2016 ” The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Washington chapter has named new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 as well as additional members to the board of directors, GovCon Executive reported Friday. AFCEA said July 14 it appointed the following execu...
Jan. 18 – Jan. 22 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Volatility in financial markets has become a fact of life all over the world and has sent investors questioning where the opportunities are in the midst of headwinds such as declining commodity pric...
