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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Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, will deliver a keynote address at the AKIMA-hosted “Tech for Govies Day: Changing the Art of the Possible” event. AKIMA will hold hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions on information technology platforms and how they can benefit government agencies as part of the four-hour event, which will be held on April 23 at Convene in Rosslyn, Va.
 

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Dell EMC has revamped its federal channel partner program by reducing the number of distributors to three companies in an effort to address complexity when offering technology platforms and services to federal market clients, CRN reported Monday. Carahsoft, Arrow and Ingram Micro are the three distributors included in the new Dell EMC Federal Partner program, which includes approximately 3K platform providers.

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Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform will allow government users to collaborate on programs and across departments, as well as manage customer service. “Digital transformation isn’t about preserving […] More

Cubic‘s Global Defense business is set to exhibit six training platforms during the U.S. Army Association’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition, which will take place May 22 to 24 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company said Monday it will showcase these technologies during the international event, which seeks to emphasize the Army’s role in the Indo-Asia-Pacific theater and the Joint Force. […] More

TYSONS CORNER, Va., May 2, 2018 — Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft, has received the 2018 GCW Readers’ Choice Award for GovCon Executives after garnering the highest number of votes among his category in Executive Mosaic‘s 2018 Wash100 list, GovConWire reported Wednesday. Abod, who is a four-time Wash100 inductee, earned 832 out of the 24,131 total votes […] More

Jason Cowie, formerly global partner and channel sales manager at Zerto, has been appointed vice president of global channels at HyTrust. Cowie will oversee the Mountain View, California-based information technology firm’s effort to establish a global network of partners to provide a platform designed to protect critical workloads in both public and private cloud environments, […] More

As most industry professionals are aware, one of the major issues the Army is currently facing is how to most efficiently accelerate to a modern, secure and globally-available network, especially in the armed services, and how to capitalize on cloud-based infrastructure and all relevant processes. One man whose reputation preceeds himself in holding responsibilities for […] More

Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at F5 Networks, has recommended federal information technology officials focus on what he describes as fundamental things necessary to address cyber threats. Wood wrote in a blog post published Wednesday on Carahsoft‘s website that cyber attacks, threat vectors and a large selection of potential security offerings can be overwhelming federal […] More

Matthew Schneider, senior director for the U.S. public sector at VMware, has said government agencies and companies should adopt the software-defined networking model in order to meet the requirements of applications and manage big data workloads amid the use of cloud platforms. Schneider wrote that the implementation of an SDN model should be combined with […] More

Precise Biometrics has received an estimated $114,000 follow-on order from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide Tactivo smart card readers through the company’s partner Carahsoft. The company said Friday the follow up order seeks to provide smart card readers for units in the agency. The Tactivo smart card readers system for smartphones and tablets is based on the Common Access […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said the company plans to collaborate with agencies that want to automate processes and manage resources in their push to unlock the “full potential” of information technology services. Rowan wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday that IT tools must not be viewed as disparate systems […] More