
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured unconditional approval from the European Commission for its proposed acquisition of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) for $34B cash, nearly two months after the U.S. Department of Justice cleared the transaction. The commission said Thursday the merger, which both companies first announced in October 2018, would not put market compe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2019 David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector business, said predictive analytics tools and digital assistants are some of the resources already utilizing artificial intelligence that government agencies can look into as they move to adopt the technology, ExecutiveBi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2019 Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) collaborated with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to utilize open source architecture, DevSecOps practices and an Agile methodology for the development and deployment of updates for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor fleet, ExecutiveBiz reported May 7. The open source solutions provider said...
David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has said there are several tools that could help government agencies facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence. Those include AI toolkits such as TensorFlow open-source software, predictive analytics tools like Red Hat Insights and AI-based digital a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 8, 2019 David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector business, said open source and hybrid cloud platforms will be key to federal agencies’ adoption of high-performance computing, ExecutiveBiz reported April 25. Egts wrote in a GCN guest piece published April 24 that t...
The Department of Justice has completed its assessment of the proposed $34B acquisition of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) by IBM (NYSE: IBM). IBM also secured a notice of early termination of the required waiting period for the transaction under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, the company said Friday in a Securities and Exchange...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 15, 2019 David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector business, has said government agencies can collaborate with vendors to determine if their existing technology delivers the agency’s needed security capabilities, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 6. Egts wrote in a g...