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Martin Schroeter, former senior vice president for global markets at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been named CEO of NewCo, an independent company that will be formed once IBM spins off its managed infrastructure services business by the end of 2021. Effective Jan. 15, Schroeter will oversee the new company that will focus on information technology infrastructure modernization and management.

Steve Septoff, vice president of federal sales at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said the shift to remote work has prompted government agencies to accelerate information technology modernization efforts and increased the need for organizations to operate in multicloud computing environments.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 28, 2020 — Carahsoft has agreed to be the master government aggregator of Opus Interactive's suite of end-to-end cloud computing services under multiple public sector contract vehicles, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 15.

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, December 2, 2020 — Steve Orrin, chief technology officer at Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) federal arm, and Cameron Chehreh, CTO of Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DELL) federal business, have advised federal agencies to consider hybrid cloud as an operating model to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence and 5G, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 23.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) will spin off its managed infrastructure services unit into a public company in a move to focus on its growth strategy for hybrid cloud and advance artificial intelligence capabilities. "Client buying needs for application and infrastructure services are diverging, while adoption of our hybrid cloud platform is accelerating. Now is the right time to create two market-leading companies focused on what they do best,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.

Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, has said he believes the company's partnerships with multiple cloud providers could support its pursuit of additional contracts in the government market, Fierce Telecom reported Wednesday. "We do expect that through those partnerships that we'll have a thriving government business, both on-premise as we have had as well as in hybrid and cloud offerings," Gelsinger told analysts during a recent earnings call.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 19, 2019 — Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC's federal unit, said adopting a multicloud strategy can offer security, transparency and flexibility advantages to agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 6.

The Transportation Security Administration has released an updated strategy meant to help the agency implement and integrate cloud-based services to carry out its mission to protect the country’s transportation system. Under the Cloud Strategy 2.0, TSA will implement a “Cloud Smart” strategy for existing applications and “Cloud First” for new IT services, according to a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday.

Melvin Greer, chief data scientist at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), has been appointed fellow-in-residence and senior adviser to the FBI’s information technology applications and data division.