Kevin Shelly serves as vice president for the public sector at MarkLogic, where he has formulated sales strategy, policy and aligned resources for customer activities since he took that role in November 2012. He brings experience management consulting and systems integration to his current role from a prior tenure at KPMG/BearingPoint. After BearingPoint, Shelly became SVP of […] More

Lance Howden, a 16-year technology sales veteran, serves as a senior director at Hortonworks and works with agencies in the intelligence community. He leads teams that develop and promote the company’s offerings to U.S. homeland security, intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies. He has worked on customer and strategic partnerships as well as other programs for the intelligence community. Howden previously held positions […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that points to a 37.8-percent compound annual growth rate for the global market on mobile cloud technologies, which combine the capabilities of cloud computing and mobile devices. From a value of $9.43 billion this year, the global mobile cloud market will reach a value of $46.90 billion in […] More

IBM has landed a five-year contract to help Fire & Rescue New South Wales implement a cloud computing infrastructure intended to consolidate the emergency services agency’s mission-critical workloads. The company said Tuesday it will design, build and operate an information technology-as-a-service platform for FRNSW, as well as migrate agency systems and applications to IBM Cloud. […] More

MicroMarket Monitor projects at North America’s predictive analytics market will hit a 24.5 percent compound annual growth rate until 2019, HealthITAnalytics said Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes the report also pegs the growth of predictive technology global market at 32.3 percent during the same forecast period. The report shows that North American organizations account for 38.8 percent of the global market. MicroMarket Monitor cited SAP, IBM and […] More

Ravi Dankanikote serves as vice president for the business system solutions group at CACI International, where he oversees growth strategies and new business development functions. According to the company, he has constructed programs and mobilized teams to position the group into new markets. He focuses on large-scale information technology transformations, department-wide enterprise resource planning implementations and […] More

Steve Risseeuw has served as vice president of Defense Department operations at SAP since February 2013 and is a more than 15-year information technology veteran. He oversees a range of SAP software products for the defense and commercial sectors and provides guidance on the organization’s business development, sales, account management and strategic programs. Risseeuw previously managed […] More

John George serves as senior vice president and chief information officer at ICF International, which he joined in 2012 from a prior role at Vangent as chief information and innovation officer. At Vangent, he led the implementation of technology the company used for customer-facing and internal systems. His private sector career includes technical and management […] More

Stephen Chipman, who will be succeeded by Mike McGuire as CEO of Grant Thornton in 2015, will take the role of senior vice chair at the global consulting and professional services firm on Jan. 1, 2015. The firm’s revenue has grown 22 percent over the last three fiscal years and launched business groups in China, India and […] More

Cisco and Viscosity North America have teamed up to discuss how to move data and applications into Cisco’s unified computing system platform during a round table discussion on Oct. 22. The team consists of Oracle ACE directors Charles Kim and Nitin Vengurlekar and Cisco’s Danny Dunn, who will investigate Viscosity’s approach for zero risk and zero downtime Oracle migrations, Viscosity […] 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

Angela Carrington is a vice president and partner in IBM’s public sector business consulting practice, where she serves as the industry executive for the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Foreign Affairs (USAID and State). As part of the IBM industry team, she leads IBM’s go to market efforts for these agencies. Her areas of focus in […] More