Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as the master government distributor of 10ZiG Technology’s thin and zero client offerings. Carahsoft will distribute 10ZiG’s virtual desktop infrastructure-ready thin and zero client line to public sector customers via Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule, Carahsoft said Tuesday. Will Jones, vice president of VMware and virtualization services at Carahsoft, […] More

Worldwide revenue from information technology-as-a-service platforms is forecast to grow 31 percent annually from 2014 to 2019, according to a new Research and Markets report. The market analyst said Thursday a growing demand for ITaaS offerings across the government sector and for low-cost enterprise infrastructure will help spur market growth. Vendors use the ITaaS technology delivery […] More

Research and advisory firm ExecRank has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,” a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

SafeNet has launched an encryption-as-a-service platform with the goal of helping cloud service providers and their enterprise customers manage data security in multitenant virtual or cloud infrastructure. The ProtectV for Service Providers offering is designed to help organizations avoid unauthorized access to sensitive information in shared cloud environments, SafeNet said Monday. The company also offers […] More

John Lee serves as vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft, a role he has held since he joined the company in 2011. The nearly-three decade government information technology veteran is responsible for work to deliver the company’s pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies such as VMware, Red Hat, Adobe and Symantec, potential cloud service providers, system integrators and government agencies. Lee previously spent 10 years at FedBid and served as […] More

QTS Realty Trust is set to become the latest cloud service provider to reach FedRAMP Ready status with its QTS Federal Cloud infrastructure as a service solution. The company said Tuesday QTS Federal Cloud’s third-party assessment results and other documentation are now under readiness review from the FedRAMP Program Management Office. The FedRAMP Ready category […] More

VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

EMC has unveiled the first EMC Federation suite that works to deliver an automated, virtual data center as a service, accelerate time-to-deployment of applications and support orchestration workflows. The company said Thursday the Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first of five offerings under EMC Federation, which comprises EMC II, VMware, RSA and Pivotal. Ray O’Farrell, corporate senior vice […] More

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Hewlett Packard to implement a technology infrastructure designed to process, manage and share data on prison inmates, GCN reported Thursday. Karen Schwartz writes HP acts as the system integrator under the $400 million project and has helped agency personnel build the state’s integrated Electronic Offender Management […] More

Dan Dougherty has led EMC‘s work in the federal market for close to four years in his role as vice president of the data storage and technology provider’s federal division. His more than two-decade career at the company has included service as a VP for the company’s APJ sales strategy and as an area sales […] More

Unisys has adopted VMware architecture to put out a new solution that integrates the information technology manager’s business tools into one cloud-based workspace. Unisys Desktop as a Service seeks to lower the costs organizations incur from buying software licenses and hardware with its suite of offerings from virtual desktops, related support services, and maintenance and […] More

Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More