Dell Technologies has selected Carahsoft to serve as a federal distributor of the former’s entire technology product line via the General Services Administration Schedule contract vehicle. Carahsoft said Monday it will sell, market and distribute Dell-built client, networking, security, servers and storage platforms to its ecosystem of partners as part of the partnership agreement. Tracy Pavillard, […] More

Iron Mountain has opened the first of four planned data centers in Northern Virginia built to help government agencies, enterprises and cloud service providers meet security and compliance requirements. The company said Friday that the new 165,000 square-foot, 10.5-megawatt multi-tenant and cloud facility in Prince William will house operations of pre-leased customers including Dell Technologies‘ […] More

Smartronix has secured a task order through a National Institutes of Health-run information technology contract vehicle to provide on-site managed services to  the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it will deliver cloud services such as infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service to DoD and department-approved mission partners on premises. Smartonix received the order under the Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide […] More

Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

Unisys has completed work to help migrate the Interior Department‘s Financial and Business Management System to a cloud computing environment as part of a $44 million task order awarded under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract. The company said Tuesday it provided infrastructure-as-a-service technology that includes partner Virtustream‘s SAP in the Cloud hosting services to support the migration. Unisys […] More

EMC and VMware have teamed up to establish a new business that will work to provide a portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms for government and commercial clients. Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers will oversee the joint venture that will operate as part of the Virtustream brand, VMware said Tuesday. The new cloud services business will work to combine […] More

Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of the U.S. public sector at HP Enterprise Services, has won the Tech Executive of the Year award from the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Crouther accepted the recognition Monday at NVTC’s TechCelebration annual banquet in Virginia, the tech council said Monday. Crouther, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the names of the finalists for the 2015 NVTC Tech Awards in honor of Northern Virginia’s technology community. NVTC said Thursday this year’s Tech Executive of the Year finalists are Neustar’s Lisa Hook, Northrop Grumman’s Neil Siegel, HP’s Marilyn Crouther, Vencore’s Barry Barlow and Virtustream’s Rodney Rogers. NVTC will […] More