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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) for approximately $34B in a move both companies expect to create a global hybrid cloud provider. IBM said Sunday it will pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat under the deal that is expected to conclude in …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 11, 2018 — General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has added Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) cloud products and services to its offerings through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 26. Google Cloud Platform will be available to General Dynamics Information …

Google has dropped plans to compete for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Federal News Network reported Monday. “We couldn’t be assured that it would be aligned with our artificial intelligence (AI) principles,” Aileen Black, an executive director at Google, said of the JEDI contract. …

Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday the proposed merger of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software firm with Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) will create a new company that will deliver software across all major cloud service providers. “We work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google, the IBM Cloud, …

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Google are emerging as potential main contenders for the Defense Department‘s planned 10-year, $10 billion cloud procurement contract, Defense One reported Thursday. The report said DoD could issue a request for proposals its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program as early as this week. Defense Secretary …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2018 — CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has joined Google‘s Cloud Partner Program as part of the former’s effort to expand its information technology portfolio for government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The partnership will work to leverage CSRA’s knowledge of mission requirements and Google’s cloud platform in …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 12, 2018 — CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will add Google‘s cloud services to its portfolio alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure with the award of a potential $8.5 million blanket purchase agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will offer G Suite and the Google Cloud Platform services …

Bikash Koley, head of network architecture, engineering and planning at Google, will join Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in August as chief technology officer. He will directly report to CEO Rami Rahim and will oversee the company’s technology strategy and execution of technology platforms such as AppFormix and Contrail, Juniper said Tuesday. …

Paul Eremenko, formerly chief technology officer at Airbus, will join United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) to serve as a senior vice president and CTO starting Jan. 1. He will succeed the retiring J. Michael McQuade and directly report to Greg Hayes, UTC chairman and CEO, the company said Thursday. Eremenko will …

Bret Taylor, formerly CEO and co-founder of collaboration platforms provider Quip, has joined Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as president and chief product officer. Taylor will oversee Salesforce’s go-to-market strategy, product vision, development and design efforts in his new role, the company said Tuesday. He previously served as chief technology officer of …