Donald Carty, a director at EMC, and GoPro President Anthony Bates have joined the board of directors of VMware. “With their business insight and experience across diverse industries as well as technology companies, their perspective and counsel will prove invaluable for the VMware board and executive team,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Carty has been with […] More

Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie Heise, vice president of commercial […] More

Amit Yoran, president of EMC subsidiary RSA, told CRN in an interview published Tuesday that the security business implemented a transformation initiative earlier this year in an effort to drive sales and customer satisfaction. Yoran said to CRN reporter Sarah Kuranda the transformation effort came after RSA studied challenges that security market customers face and reviewed its technology offerings. He added […] More

A new Technavio report says the global market for security services is poised to gain a 10.13 percent year-over-year growth from 2014 to 2019. Technavio analysts observed government and commercial organizations investing in security service offerings to prevent theft of enterprise information and unauthorized data access, ReportBuyer said Thursday. The research firm used revenue data […] More

International Data Corp. reports that the global cloud IT infrastructure market achieved a 25.1-percent year-over-year growth in sales revenue to reach $6.3 billion in the first quarter. IDC said Thursday spending also grew from 26.4 percent of overall first-quarter IT infrastructure spending last year to almost 30 percent this year. The growth is due to increasing demand […] More

An analysis by Technavio predicts the worldwide market for enterprise information technology security platforms will achieve an average growth of 7.83 percent from 2015 to 2019. Technavio has observed more government and commercial organizations adopting tools to prevent theft and unauthorized access of their enterprise data as well as to mitigate sophisticated threats, Market Research […] More

Iron Bow Technologies has been recognized in The Channel Company’s annual CRN Tech Elite 250 list of information technology providers. Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow, said Monday the company’s inclusion in the list for the fifth consecutive year validates Iron Bow’s efforts to “maintain technical excellence.” LaVigne added that Iron Bow leverages […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

Research and Markets predicts that the global mobile data protection market will continue to experience fast-paced growth to reach a market value of $3.54 billion in five years at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent from 2014 to 2019. The firm said Friday that the risk of data loss and theft due to the growing adoption of bring-your-own-device practices at businesses as […] More

Research and Markets has projected a 4.62 compound annual growth rate for the global mega data center market from 2014 to 2018. Cloud computing technology will be among the primary growth drivers in the large enterprise data hubs industry, the research firm said Thursday. Analysts also see a trend toward interconnection between big data centers […] More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts that the market for big data platforms worldwide will grow at a compound annual rate of 25.52 percent to $46.34 billion by 2018. The report provides an analysis of big data market trends by product and service type, by region and by vertical segment, the market research and consulting firm said […] More