Sheila Sorrells, a more than 20-year public sector market veteran, has joined search company Elastic as director of federal business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.

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RackTop Systems hired information technology industry veterans Graham Moore, Michael Beegen and Brian Santrock to respectively serve as vice president of federal sales, director of federal systems engineering and manager of western U.S. federal accounts at the Fulton, Md.-based company.

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Ken Hermann, a federal account management professional with nearly 20 years of industry experience, has been named vice president for federal civilian agencies at Reston, Va.-based cloud services provider ORock Technologies, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday.

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Multinational tech firm Cisco Systems is partnering with North Carolina to launch the CyberVetsUSA program to connect the state government with the industry to train veterans for jobs in the cybersecurity field. The office of the governor said Wednesday the company will work with the state’s departments of military and veterans affairs, information technology and commerce […] More

Blue Cedar has partnered with four other technology companies to update a cryptographic module designed to secure data transfer across web servers and connected devices. San Francisco-based Blue Cedar said Thursday it will collaborate with Open SSL, Akamai, NetApp and VMware develop a new Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 module for the OpenSSL software library. The alliance seeks to help organizations […] More

Skip Liesegang, former director of channels and distribution for the Americas at NetApp, has joined DLT Solutions to serve as vice president of channels. He will develop and enact programs that support growth and productivity for the public sector in his new role, DLT said Tuesday. Liesegang held his most recent position with NetApp for four years […] More

Leidos has established a new program that aims to advance innovation, build up program performance and facilitate the delivery of technology platforms designed to meet clients’ mission needs with the use of the company’s supplier base. The company said Wednesday the Leidos Alliance Partner Network consists of corporate strategic, technology alliance and emerging technology partners. […] More

As if there was not enough instability in our current political climate, Congress has plans to limit funds for the U.S. Army‘s battlefield network development program until they submit a modernization plan for its tactical communications and data networks, according to a recent report by C4ISRNET. The final annual defense policy bill contains language to […] More

SAP SE has announced the initial list of partners that will participate in a blockchain co-innovation program which aims to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the applications of blockchain technologies. The SAP Leonardo Blockchain Co-Innovation program looks to integrate a digital ledger system onto digital supply chain, Internet of Things and manufacturing services, SAP […] More

A new MeriTalk study has found that 59 percent of federal agencies have fielded converged infrastructure systems as part of their organizations’ data center strategies. MeriTalk said Monday the “Converged: At the Core of IT All” report, underwritten by NetApp and Cisco, is based on an online poll of 150 federal information technology leaders between May and June. […] More

Elizabeth Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, has been included in CRN magazine’s Women of the Channel list for 2017 in recognition of her leadership, vision and expertise in the information technology sector. Anthony told CRN in an interview that young women who consider a career in IT should learn to adapt to change […] More

The state of Nebraska’s online government portal has been chosen for the Web Marketing Association’s Best in Industry 2016 Mobile WebAward for government mobile website. WMA’s annual awards program recognizes mobile websites and applications based on criteria such as creativity, design, interactivity and ease of use, Nebraska Interactive said Friday. NIC manages Nebraska.gov and provides online […] More