SGI will offer its customers Seagate Technology‘s storage appliances under a reselling partnership agreement that targets academic, industry and government markets with their combined storage and high-performance computing products. The companies said Tuesday SGI customers will have access to Seagate’s ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor 6000 and ClusterStor 900. Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, said he expects the partnership to help […] More

Bill Downer is a manager at Seagate handling the federal business development line. The sales and management veteran has over two decades of experience working for data storage technology companies, including sales manager at Sun Microsystems and federal business vice president at DataDirect Networks. Previous roles also include regional director of sales and channel relations at Quantum. 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

Carahsoft Technology will distribute a new cloud services stack designed to facilitate data management, migration and security across cloud, on-premise, hybrid and edge environments. CloudStack uses an open architecture that allows government agencies to customize cloud service components including data protection, infrastructure monitoring, zero-trust security and data protection, Carahsoft said Thursday. The software distributor’s customers […] More

Paul Kaminski, chairman and CEO of defense consulting firm Technovation, has joined Digital Global Systems' board of directors to provide military expertise as the company looks to transition to key markets. He brings defense experience as a retired U.S. Air Force official who served as the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, DGS said Monday.

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Paul Kaminski, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran and former acquisition chief at the Department of Defense, has joined the federal advisory board of geospatial collaboration software provider Immersive Wisdom.

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David Anderson, a 25-year systems engineering veteran and former senior solutions architect at iGov Technologies, has been  appointed vice president of engineering at rugged computer manufacturing company Systel. 

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ExecutiveBiz spoke with David Peed, vice president and general manager of Equinix Government Solutions, about the completed acquisition of Terremark Federal Group, Equinix’s unique interconnection and data center services role and what lies ahead for the company. “With our array of partners operating at our data centers, we’re becoming known as a trusted ecosystem for […] More

Tarun Loomba, formerly vice president and general manager of SanDisk‘s computing storage solutions business, has joined communications technology provider Polycom as executive vice president for solutions management. Polycom said Tuesday the more than 20-year technology industry veteran will oversee the company’s worldwide product and services management teams from its headquarters in San Jose, California. “His in-depth experience in hardware, software […] More

Stephen Pace, a former sales executive at network security firms Pwnie Express and Core Security, has joined Raytheon as senior vice president of global sales for the firm’s cyber products business. In his new role, he will be responsible for helping the unit develop and implement strategies intended to drive sales of its cybersecurity offerings […] More

Xyratex has unveiled a new product in its ClusterStor range of high-performance computing and big data storage products that are built with multilevel security features and work to manage data storage throughput and data processing functions. The Seagate subsidiary said Tuesday that the ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance is built to meet the government’s Intelligence Community Directive 503 and Cross-Domain Solution requirements. Ken […] More