Ben McNeal, a 30-year U.S. Navy veteran and former program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks, has been named director of Navy and Marine Corps strategy and sales at Red Hat. Nathan Jones, vice president of the federal business at Red Hat, announced in a LinkedIn post the addition of McNeal to the software company’s public...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2021 — David Egts, senior director and chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, indicated during a question-and-answer session with ExecutiveBiz the use of edge computing devices and an open hybrid cloud approach could help agencies address data management challenges. “Edge devic...

Ben Cushing of Red Hat and Shane McNamee of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) said their companies have teamed up to come up with an open standards, open-source technology-based system that is built around patients and meant to help health care providers eliminate barriers to delivering medical care to patients. Cushing and McNamee discussed HealthConcours...

SUSE Rancher Government Solutions has officially launched and appointed federal industry veteran Lynne Chamberlain as president of regulated markets and government. Chamberlain will oversee the company’s efforts in helping the U.S. government adopt enterprise Linux, edge, Kubernetes and other open source platforms to accelerate digital transformat...

Joe Sangiuliano, senior director of civilian sales at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, has transitioned to a new role as vice president of business development within the same unit. He will oversee the group’s capture, alliance and partnership-driven growth efforts in his new position, according to a LinkedIn post published b...

Garrett Clark, practice lead of OpenShift virtualization, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure for the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said hyperconverged infrastructure and open source could help government agencies streamline the adoption of edge computing to improve mission outcomes. Clark wrote that hyperconverged infrastr...

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft Technology, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted and prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). This marks the seventh consecutive year that Abod has won the award and been recognized for his commitment and drive to the GovCon...

Arvind Krishna, CEO and a board member of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of the technology company, effective Jan. 1. He will succeed Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, who will retire by the end of December after a nearly 40-year career with IBM....

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, has urged state and local government agencies to consider automating security and employing other efforts to enhance cybersecurity protection against financially driven hackers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday....

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — David Egts, director and chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, said in a podcast that the company, in partnership with Cloudera, created a turnkey platform as government agencies started integrating such tools to better manage, analyze, visualize and share federal data, Exec...