Jacklyn Wynn, formerly a vice president at Mitre, has joined General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology unit as VP of strategic programs, Women of Color Magazine reported Thursday. She will oversee programs within the federal health sector, military health and veterans affairs areas of the GDIT business.
Read More »AF Life Cycle Management Center Awards $95M Cloud Services BPA
Twenty-seven companies have landed spots on a blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to provide cloud services to the militay branch's LevelUP cyber factory.
Read More »NSF, UT Austin, Tech Firms Debut Supercomputer at Texas Advanced Computing Center
Representatives from the National Science Foundation, University of Texas at Austin and several technology vendors celebrated on Tuesday the inauguration of an NSF-funded supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. TACC's Frontera system is built through a $60M investment from NSF and designed to support discovery efforts by U.S. scientific teams, NSF said Tuesday.
Read More »VMware Strikes $2.7B in Deals for Pivotal, Carbon Black; Pat Gelsinger Quoted
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for about $2.1B.
Read More »VMware Aims to Buy Pivotal, Negotiates Share Exchange Ratio With Dell
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is in talks to acquire all of Pivotal Software's (NYSE: PVTL) outstanding Class A common shares for $15 per share in cash. San Francisco-based Pivotal said Wednesday its and VMware's controlling stockholder, Dell Technologies, filed a "Schedule 13D/A" with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read More »RSA’s Steve Schmalz: Agencies Should Integrate Security From the Start of IT Modernization
Steve Schmalz, field chief technology officer of public sector at Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DVMT) RSA subsidiary, has said government agencies should update their security platforms as they modernize their information technology infrastructure. “The key is making sure to incorporate security from the start because changing the infrastructure will require agencies …
Read More »Virtustream’s Tim Bock: Holistic Evaluation of App Portfolios Key to Cloud Adoption
Tim Bock, Dell public alliance manager at Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DVMT) Virtustream subsidiary, has said agencies seeking to migrate resources and workloads to the cloud should move their focus from infrastructure to functionality and applications through holistic evaluation of app portfolios. Bock wrote that conducting such an assessment could help agencies “understand …
Read More »Reports: Dell Technologies Eyes Public Market Return With VMware Tracking Stock Purchase
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DVMT) said it will buy out VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) tracking stock in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $21.7 billion in a move to go public again without filing for an initial public offering, Reuters reported Monday. Dell will swap 1.3665 shares of its Class C stock, or …
Read More »Richard Ledgett, Christopher Painter, Michael Brown Named Palo Alto Networks Advisers
Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) has added Richard Ledgett, former deputy director at the National Security Agency, and Christopher Painter, former top cybersecurity official at the State Department, to its public sector advisory council to help shape the company’s cyber strategy and offer advice on security and technological needs of …
Read More »NTT Group-Dell Technologies Team to Work on Smart City Program for Las Vegas
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 4, 2018 — NTT Group has partnered with Dell Technologies to develop a program that aims to drive digital transformation in Las Vegas and develop its smart city capability, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. NTT Data said Tuesday the group will deploy micro data centers with analytics functions to help the …
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