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TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, has urged state and local government agencies to consider automating security and employing other efforts to enhance cybersecurity protection against financially driven hackers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — David Egts, director and chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, said in a podcast that the company, in partnership with Cloudera, created a turnkey platform as government agencies started integrating such tools to better manage, analyze, visualize and share federal data, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 4.

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.

Shaun Bierweiler, formerly president of government solutions business at Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), has joined information technology firm Riverbed Technology as senior vice president of public sector, GovCon Wire has learned.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 29, 2020 — Red Hat secured National Information Assurance Partnership certification under the Common Criteria standards for its Enterprise Linux 7.6 operating system following assessment work by Acumen Security, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 15.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 18, 2020 — Carahsoft Technology will help the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard procure Red Hat's OpenJDK software products and support services under an agency catalog agreement from DoD, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 2.

On Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its latest virtual event, Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment, featuring a keynote address from Michael Mestrovich for the U.S. Department of State. If you missed the event, you can still register to watch the full event in Potomac Officers Club’s Event Archive.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2020 — The intelligence and space business of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RHX) has been named Red Hat's business transfomation partner of the year for a second time, ExecutiveBiz reported July 24.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, explained in a video interview posted Thursday on FedScoop how a multicloud portfolio approach to information technology helps accelerate digital transformation efforts in the federal government.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2020 — Red Hat has given Carasoft the software provider's Distribution Partner of the Year award for the North American public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported July 1.