Rod Volz serves as Vice President of Client Services, Deputy COO at Solutions By Design, an IT management support services company. His 27 years of professional services experience includes leadership roles in profit and loss management, business development and program management. Formerly Volz was the founder and managing principal at FutureBridge, a Virginia-based information technology and […] More

Stephen Kovac, a 23-year information technology veteran, serves as executive vice president for strategy and business development at Vazata‘s public sector business. He has responsibility for the development of procurement strategies and product roadmaps in the federal, state and local government and education markets. Prior to Vazata, he served as senior VP of sales and […] More

John Hinshaw, executive vice president for technology and operations at Hewlett Packard, has been named an independent director of the board of directors at DocuSign. “John not only brings deep expertise in cloud, security and mobility, but he is a customer-focused operational leader who leverages technology to drive innovation and transformation,” Keith Krach, DocuSign chairman […] More

Wray Varley serves as area vice president of advanced programs for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice at CenturyLink’s federal government industry. In this role, he directs a sales team that focuses on CenturyLink’s national security-related contracts. Prior to this role, Varley had sales and business development responsibility for all civilian government agencies such as the departments of Energy […] More

Melanie Posey, research vice president of IDC’s hosting and managed network services, has described three factors she believes enterprises should consider before adopting subscription-based software offerings. Posey wrote in a blog post published Monday that enterprises must conduct audit on the software they are buying to allocate workloads between perpetual license and subscription models. “There are […] More

Gartner has predicted in a forecast that global spending on information security will reach $76.9 billion by 2015, up 7.9 percent from the firm’s recorded figure for 2014, George Koroneos of Verizon said Tuesday. The research firm said at a summit in Australia that businesses are increasing their information security investments due to the rise in adoption of cloud […] More

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More

Jon McCabe, formerly vice president of financial planning and analysis at SafeNet Inc., has succeeded Mike Branca as the information security firm’s chief financial officer. He will report to President and CEO Dave Hansen and oversee functions such as accounting, tax, controllership, treasury and financial planning, among other areas, SafeNet said Tuesday. Hansen said McCabe […] More

Rafeeq Rehman, senior security solutions architect at Verizon Terremark, has urged enterprises to draw lessons from large data breaches that have occurred to retailers in the U.S. and around the world. “While IT and security professionals are trying to piece together information about how the recently reported  U.S. data breaches happened and how many customers are […] More