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Matt Garman, a veteran engineering executive at Amazon Web Services, has been appointed head of sales at AWS, Bloomberg reported Monday.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper Recuses Himself From JEDI Cloud Contract Review
Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 awardee Mark Esper has recused himself from a review of the Pentagon’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to avoid any issue of a conflict of interest.
Read More »Steampunk Names Four Industry Execs to Oversee Federal Civilian Sector, Salesforce Practice
McLean, Va.-based information technology services contractor Steampunk has appointed industry leaders Max Licht, Joe Nizhnikov, Brandon Feather and Mike Fischer to lead its federal civilian sector and Salesforce practice.
Read More »Oracle, VMware Form Cloud Integration Partnership
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) VMware (NYSE: VMW) have partnered to make the latter’s software and services available on the Oracle cloud infrastructure.
Read More »Report: Treasury Plans to Spend $1.5B on Cloud Procurement Contracts
The Department of the Treasury plans to make an investment of more than $1.5B in the next 10 years to move its data and systems to the cloud, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.
Read More »Pentagon Chief Mark Esper to Reassess JEDI Cloud Contract
Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient Mark Esper will review the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract before the Department of Defense awards it, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Read More »Report: DoD Poised to Award JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft or Amazon
The Department of Defense is expected to award in August the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) or Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Read More »Mike Daniels Appointed Google Government Cloud Sales Lead
Mike Daniels, an executive from Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has joined Google as vice president for global public sector cloud sales, Bloomberg reported Monday.
Read More »Brad Cole Appointed SE Solutions Chief Growth Officer
Brad Cole, formerly managing director at Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has been named chief growth officer at McLean, Va.-based technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions. John Wayne, president and chief operating officer of SE Solutions, said in a statement published Monday Cole brings to the …
Read More »Amazon, Microsoft Emerge as Final Competitors for $10B DoD JEDI Cloud Contract
A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense said Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) are the last two contenders for DoD’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Elissa Smith, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said Microsoft and Amazon were the only companies that met …
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