Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue. IT firms collectively sold about $12 […] More

Laurence Grayer, of counsel at Protorae Law, has been appointed to the board of directors at Veterans Moving Forward, a nonprofit organization that trains and offers assistance dogs to former military service members with physical and mental health problems. He previously held the roles of senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at DynCorp […] More

A Big Market Research study predicts the global market for managed security services to record a compound annual growth rate of 15.8 percent from 2014 through 2020. The research firm said Wednesday an increase in adoption of bring-your-own-device policies at workplaces and rising incidents of data breaches and cyber attacks are among the factors that will drive the […] More

The General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management have achieved the highest scores in terms of their implementation of the two-factor authentication as part of a cybersecurity sprint launched by Federal CIO Tony Scott in April, FCW reported Wednesday. Zach Noble writes GSA hit a 99 percent score in authentication implementation for privileged […] More

Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of sales for U.S. federal clients at Vormetric since January 2013, with responsibility in overseeing the company’s effort to expand cybersecurity platform offerings. He previously served as regional manager of the Defense Department for the Plan B government systems, with partners such as Citrix, Cisco, CommVault, Data Domain, Dell, […] More

Eric Hutto, vice president and general manager of the U.S. and Canada region for Unisys Corp., has been named senior VP and president of Unisys’ enterprise solutions segment. Hutto will succeed Ronald Frankenfield, who will retire on Aug. 31, and oversee the company’s services, technology products and software to build up client relationships, Unisys said […] More

Wes Anderson serves as vice president of worldwide public sector services at Microsoft and leads a team that offers information technology services to U.S. and international government agencies. Anderson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, previously held the VP title for U.S. public sector services at Microsoft and also created and led the […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global threat intelligence security market will climb in value at a compound annual growth rate of 14.3 percent from $3 billion in 2015 to $5.9 billion in 2020. The market research firm said Wednesday the projected growth is due to the increasing number of cyber attacks and the corresponding […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets analysis projects the global market for threat intelligence to experience a compound annual growth rate of 14.3 percent through 2020 due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks. Threat monitoring, training, consulting and security intelligence systems and services will reach a market value of $5.9 billion over the next five years as commercial firms increase spending […] More

Tom Richey serves as a vice president and partner for federal growth and sales at IBM‘s global business services organization and works from the company’s Washington office. He has held the position since March 2012 and is in charge of GBS Federal’s sales and growth activities and workforce for capture management, marketing research, proposal development […] More

Doug Sickler serves as vice president of federal sales at Unisys Federal Systems. He brings more than two decades of sales experience in the information technology area to his role at Unisys and oversees the activities of the company’s federal sales team. Prior to joining Unisys in 2011, Sickler spent two years at Dell Services as vice […] More

A new Technavio report says the global market for security services is poised to gain a 10.13 percent year-over-year growth from 2014 to 2019. Technavio analysts observed government and commercial organizations investing in security service offerings to prevent theft of enterprise information and unauthorized data access, ReportBuyer said Thursday. The research firm used revenue data […] More