Steve Pataky, vice president of worldwide channels and alliances at FireEye, has been included in CRN magazine’s list of the 50 most influential leaders in the channel industry; The CRN editorial team picked Pataky for his leadership work on FireEye’s channel-related programs such as the FireEye Fuel Partner Program, FireEye announced Tuesday. The FireEye Fuel Partner Program […] More

Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More

CloudBees has moved to extend the reach of its continuous delivery platform by joining the Verizon cloud engine, Virtualization Review reported Wednesday. John Waters writes the CloudBees delivery platform is built for developers to deploy applications and update Web and mobile apps. The Belgium-based company offers the DEV@cloud service for developers to test apps in […] More

Yannis Karmis has been tapped to serve as the vice president of the newly formed global corporate solutions group of Sabre Travel Network. In this role, Karmis will handle the corporate travel solutions offerings of the company such as GetThere, TripCase Corporate and TruTrip, the company announced Wednesday. Greg Webb, Sabre Travel Network president, said […] More

InfoReliance and Esri have partnered to offer a free testing service for customers to try Esri’s geographic information system on the AWS cloud platform. The Esri AWS Test Drive is meant to provide an information technology sandbox environment for business users to implement and explore the ArcGIS online cloud mapping technology, InfoReliance said Monday. Esri designed […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More

David Buemi serves as vice president of federal energy solutions at Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. where he leads the firm’s marketing and government markets group. Buemi has held executive management positions over 28 years in the clean energy, information technology and consumer products industries and has worked in the photovoltaics industry since 1999. At Gehrlicher, […] More

The launch of MarkLogic‘s database technology to manage business critical applications in the Amazon Web Services cloud seeks to offer customers several IT advantages, according to Evan Quinn of the Enterprise Management Associates. MarkLogic on AWS is intended to provide the same availability, disaster recovery and security features as the MarkLogic product designed for on-premise […] More