SparkCognition, which aims to build artificial intelligence technology platforms, has raised $100M through a Series C funding round led by March Capital Partners.
Read More »Weekly Roundup: DoD Awards $7.6B Cloud BPA to General Dynamics IT, Kevin Samuelson Becomes CEO of Infor, Multiple Contract Awards & Weekly Top 10 Stories
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the General Services Administration (GSA) awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a potential 10-year, $7.6B blanket purchase agreement on Thursday to replace legacy DoD IT office applications with a standard cloud-based platform across the U.S. military. GDIT secured the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) …
Read More »Nick Michaelides Promoted to Cisco Public Sector SVP
Nick Michaelides, vice president of U.S. federal sales at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has been promoted to senior VP of the company’s U.S. public sector organization.
Read More »Dan Kent Named Idemia SVP, CTO for North America Identity & Security; Ed Casey Quoted
Dan Kent, a 28-year information technology industry veteran, has joined augmented identity and biometric systems provider IDEMIA as senior vice president and chief technology officer for identity and security business in North America.
Read More »Steven Picot, Richard Breakiron Take Public Sector Sales Leadership Roles at Commvault
Information technology industry veterans Steven Picot and Richard Breakiron have been named to sales leadership positions for the U.S. public sector at Commvault (Nasdaq: CVLT).
Read More »Cisco’s Carl De Groote, Chuck Louisell Talk AI, ML & Analytics for Military Operations
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 13, 2018 — Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) executives Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell have urged the U.S. military to explore technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and in-line data analytics with an agile and resilient multinetwork architecture to support mission assurance, sustained operations and …
Read More »Cisco’s Dan Kent: Cloud Migration of Data to Increase Amid Gov’t Efforts
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 30, 2018 — Dan Kent, chief technology officer of the public sector business at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), believes there will be an increase in data migration to the cloud and opportunities for cloud providers to support government customers in this effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Federal Times …
Read More »Vishal Gupta Named Unisys CTO, Technology SVP; Peter Altabef Comments
Vishal Gupta, senior vice president for engineering at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), will serve as chief technology officer and SVP for technology at Unisys (NYSE: UIS) starting Aug. 31. He will directly report to Unisys CEO Peter Altabef and succeed Tarek El-Sadany, who will leave by the end of August to …
Read More »Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: ‘Architectural’ Cloud Migration Approach With AI, ML to Bolster Fed IT Modernization
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2018 — Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said the company is working with federal customers to leverage the cloud as the platform for their information technology modernization efforts as networks gain new capabilities and grow …
Read More »Paul Mountford Succeeds Jerry Kennelly as Riverbed CEO
Paul Mountford, formerly senior vice president and chief sales officer at Riverbed Technology, has been selected to succeed the retiring Jerry Kennelly as CEO of the San Francisco-based digital platforms provider. Riverbed said Tuesday Kennelly, who will retire after 16 years at the helm, will serve in an advisory capacity …
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